# Major Whirlwind

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{{Infobox television
| image          = Major_Whirlwind_(TV_series).jpeg
| caption        =
| director       = [Yevgeny Tashkov](/source/Yevgeny_Tashkov)
| producer     = Gennady Abramov
| writer         = [Yulian Semyonov](/source/Yulian_Semyonov)
| narrator       =
| starring       = [Vadim Beroev](/source/Vadim_Beroev)<br>[Anastasia Voznesenskaya](/source/Anastasia_Voznesenskaya)<br>[Vladislav Strzhelchik](/source/Vladislav_Strzhelchik)<br>[Victor Pavlov](/source/Victor_Pavlov)<br>[Alexander Schirvindt](/source/Alexander_Schirvindt)
| music          = [Andrei Eshpai](/source/Andrei_Eshpai)
| cinematography = Pyotr Terpsikhorov
| editor         =
| network        =
| company        = [Mosfilm](/source/Mosfilm)
| released       = {{Start date|1967}}
| runtime        = 216 min.
| country        = Soviet Union
| language       = Russian
| budget         =
}}
'''''Major Whirlwind''''' or ({{langx|ru|Майор  Вихрь |Mayor  Vikhr}}) is a 1967 television film directed by [Yevgeny Tashkov](/source/Yevgeny_Tashkov) and based on the novel by Yulian Semyonov.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/maior_vihr/|publisher=Vokrug TV|title=Майор Вихрь}}</ref><ref>[http://юлиан-семенов.рус/semenov/biblioteka/45/ Фильмография писателя  Юлиана Семёнова]</ref> The main character, Major Whirlwind, is inspired by [Aleksey Nikolayevich Botyan](/source/Aleksey_Nikolayevich_Botyan).<ref>[https://www.kp.ru/daily/26940.5/3991183/ Алексей Ботян, майор Вихрь, в день своего 102-летия: Таких нет полудурков, чтобы на Россию напасть]</ref>

==Plot==
Summer 1944. In impotent rage before impending disaster, management of the [SS](/source/Schutzstaffel) with the support of [Hitler](/source/Hitler) undertakes a special program of extermination of Slavic cultural capitals. [Kraków](/source/Krak%C3%B3w), [Bratislava](/source/Bratislava), [Prague](/source/Prague)   all these cities must be mined and razed to the ground with explosions.  The Soviet command sends a special group of Major Whirlwind  into occupied Kraków, consisting of three people, whose aim is to prevent the destruction of the city. The release of the group is unsuccessful,  Whirlwind  gets shipped to the [Gestapo](/source/Gestapo), but later he manages to escape.

Agents start to take action. The Polish underground collects valuable information about the German troops in Kraków, and radio operator  Anya transmits them to the Soviet command. However, during one of radio transmissions, location of the transmitter is traced, and  Anya   is arrested by the [Abwehr](/source/Abwehr). Abwehr Colonel Berg in conjunction with the Gestapo holds an operation for recruiting  Anya  for the subsequent radio play. He tells the radio operator that supposedly he is ready to cooperate with the Soviet intelligence and pass important information on to them. Berg manages to convince  Anya  and she even sends coded disinformation prepared by the Gestapo. However, after the arrest of his chief Admiral Canaris in connection with the [20 July plot](/source/20_July_plot), Colonel Berg decides to establish genuine contact with the Soviet intelligence. He meets with  Whirlwind  and organizes  Anya's  escape.

With Berg's group,  Whirlwind  gets information about the specific organizers of the Kraków explosion. Attempting to influence the Chief Executive of the act,   SS officer Libo, is a failure. However,  Whirlwind  manages to capture engineer Krauch, who when saving his own life, draws a diagram of the Kraków explosion network. In the last hours before the destruction of the city,  Whirlwind  and the Polish underground find the main cable, blow it up and fiercely defend the place of the explosion. Brave heroes die, German soldiers are already prepared to repair the damaged cable, but Soviet tanks are not far away and the Nazis flee.

==Cast==
* [Vadim Beroev](/source/Vadim_Beroev) as Major Whirlwind<ref>[http://old.redstar.ru/2006/11/01_11/4_01.html  Майор Вихорь: Реальные имена и события. Владимир Лота, кандидат исторических наук.]</ref> 
* [Anastasia Voznesenskaya](/source/Anastasia_Voznesenskaya) as Anya, radio operator
* [Viktor Pavlov](/source/Viktor_Pavlov)    as Kolya, Whirlwind's deputy
* [Alexander Schirvindt](/source/Alexander_Schirvindt) as Jozef, Polish underground fighter
* [Yevgeny Teterin](/source/Yevgeny_Teterin) as  Sedoi, Polish underground fighter
* [Lyudmila Davydova](/source/Lyudmila_Davydova) as Krysya, Polish underground fighter
* [Igor Yasulovich](/source/Igor_Yasulovich) as Kurt Appel, German soldier-driver, Krysya's groom
* [Yevgeni Burenkov](/source/Yevgeni_Burenkov) as Borodin, soviet intelligence colonel
* [Yuri Volyntsev](/source/Yuri_Volyntsev) as Hugo Shwalb, Gestapo officer
* [Vladimir Kenigson](/source/Vladimir_Kenigson) as Traub, German military journalist
* [Vladislav Strzhelchik](/source/Vladislav_Strzhelchik) as Berg, Abwehr colonel
* [Yevgeniy Kuznetsov](/source/Yevgeni_Kuznetsov_(actor)) as [Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger](/source/Friedrich-Wilhelm_Kr%C3%BCger), SD chief of Kraków
* [Vladimir Gusev](/source/Vladimir_Gusev_(actor)) as Mukha, traitor
* [Oleg Golubitsky](/source/Oleg_Golubitsky) as interpreter
* [Georgi Shevtsov](/source/Georgi_Shevtsov) as Stromberg, Wehrmacht major 
* [Konstantin Zheldin](/source/Konstantin_Zheldin) as Gestapo officer, Kolya's  who questioned  
* [Boris Bibikov](/source/Boris_Bibikov) as Neubutt, Wehrmacht colonel-general
* [Vladimir Osenev](/source/Vladimir_Osenev) as Krauch, German colonel-engineer
* [Peeter Kard](/source/Peeter_Kard) as Gustav Libo, SS Obersturmbannführer
* [Vladimir Pitsek](/source/Vladimir_Pitsek) as hairdresser
* [Sergei Golovanov](/source/Sergei_Golovanov_(actor)) as Birghoff, Wehrmacht officer
* [Valentin Golubenko](/source/Valentin_Golubenko) as Gestapo officer
* [Valentina Sharykina](/source/Valentina_Sharykina) as girl dancing at the restaurant
* [Aleksandra Denisova](/source/Aleksandra_Denisova) as old Polish woman
* [Alevtina Rumyantseva](/source/Alevtina_Rumyantseva) as waitress
* [Victor Filippov](/source/Victor_Filippov) as Polish partisan

==See also==
* [Seventeen Moments of Spring](/source/Seventeen_Moments_of_Spring)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0299018|Major Whirlwind}}

Category:1967 television films
Category:Mosfilm films
Category:Soviet television films
Category:Soviet war adventure films
Category:1967 Soviet films
Category:1967 Russian-language films
Category:1960s war adventure films
Category:Soviet black-and-white films
Category:Stierlitz
Category:Soviet World War II films
Category:Russian World War II films
Category:World War II films based on actual events
Category:Films set in Kraków
Category:Films set in 1944
Category:Films about the 20 July plot
Category:Russian-language war adventure films
Category:1967 black-and-white films

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