The film is based on the novel "With Cards on the Table" by Oleg Shmelyov and Vladimir Vostokov.
Publicity for this picture boasted the movie has had 28.7 million viewers.
The movie is divided into two parts: Part 1 is called "With Cards on the Table" and Part 2 is called "Western Trail".
This is the second movie in a series of Russian spy films with the others being "The Secret Agent's Blunder", "The Secret Agent's Return", and "The End of Operation - Secret Agent".