Two at The Cafe
Composed by Mikael Tariverdiev, Two At The Cafe (Russian: Двое в кафе) is a piano piece from the 1973 Soviet television series Seventeen Moments of Spring (Russian: Семнадцать мгновений весны), an adaptation of Yulian Semyonov's novel with the same name. The series is about the life of Soviet spy Maksim Isaev operating in Nazi Germany under the name Max Otto von Stirlitz, a role played in the television series by the Soviet actor Vyacheslav Tikhonov.
Mikael Tariverdiev (Russian: Микаэл Таривердиев) (1931 - 1996) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He wrote more than one hundred "romances" and four operas. He is best known for his music in many popular Soviet movies, including Seventeen Moments of Spring and The Irony of Fate. In 1977, he was awarded the USSR State Prize in Literature and Arts.
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