Home

The Shield and the Sword (1968-1968)

Premiere:
August 19, 1968

# of Seasons: 1

# of Episodes: 4

Finale:
September 3, 1968

Creators:
Vladimir Basov
Vadim Kozhevnikov

Original Title:
Щит и меч

Alternate Titles:
Schild und Schwert
Shchit i Mech
Shield and Sword
Tareza i miecz

Genres:
Action & Adventure | Drama | War & Politics

Production Companies:
DEFA
Mosfilm
Zespół Filmowy "Start"

Countries:
PL | SU | XG

Overview from TheMovieDB

The year is 1940 and Nazi Germany is at the height of its military prowess, having captured most of Europe and eyeing the Soviet Union to the East. The Russian military command suspects hostile intent from Germany and so arranges for its spies to infiltrate ranks of the German military and the SS. Alexander Belov is a Russian spy, who travels from Soviet-held Latvia to Nazi Germany under an alias of Johann Weiss. His mastery of the German language, steel nerves and an ability to manipulate others help him to use his connections in the SS to ascend the ladder of the German intelligence. He uses his position to identify sympathetic Germans, who help him to procure vital intelligence, and to help local resistance movements in their collective fight against Nazism.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Camera Operator:
Timofei Lebeshev

Costume Design:
Valentin Perelyotov

Director:
Vladimir Basov

Editor:
Lyudmila Badorina
Mariya Sergeeva

Novel:
Vadim Kozhevnikov

Original Music Composer:
Venyamin Basner

Production Design:
Aleksei Parkhomenko

Screenplay:
Vladimir Basov
Vadim Kozhevnikov

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.