Summary
The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
Details
Release Date: February 22, 2005
Runtime: 130 minutes
Genres: Mystery, Adventure, Action, Drama, History
Original Language: RU
Rating: ⭐ 6.4/10 (81 votes)
The Adventures of Erast Fandorin
The Turkish Gambit
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The State Counsellor
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Cast
Egor Beroev
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Olga Krasko
Varvara Suvorova
Marat Basharov
Mitya Gridnev
Vladimir Ilin
general Lavrentiy Mizinov
Dmitriy Pevtsov
count Ippolit Zurov
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
colonel Lukan
Aleksandr Baluev
general Mikhail Sobolev
Aleksey Guskov
lieutenant colonel Kazanaki
Gosha Kutsenko
Ismail
Andrey Krasko
corporal
Leonid Kuravlyov
major
Sergey Gazarov
governor Vidina
Viktor Bychkov
cornet
Velimir Velev
Anvar
Evgeniy Lazarev
Aleksandr II
Aleksandr Lykov
Perepyolkin
Didier Bienaimé
Charles D'evreux
Daniel Olbrychski
McLaughlin
Aleksandr Oleshko
Petya Yablokov
Valdis Pelšs
Danchenko
Andrey Rudensky
Lestvitsky
Anatoliy Kuznetsov
general Konetskiy
Stanislav Duzhnikov
Semyon
Stanislav Pishtalov
Raicho Vasilev
Ismail's bodyguard
Oleg Makarov
Lunz