The State Counsellor (2005)
Statskiy sovetnik
127 min
Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...
- Release date
- April 21, 2005
- Country of origin
- Russia
- Box office
- $7,726,507
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Trailer
Cast
- Oleg Menshikov as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- Nikita Mikhalkov as Count Pozharsky
- Konstantin Khabenskiy as Green
- Vladimir Mashkov as Kozyr
- Oleg Tabakov as Count Vladimir Dolgorukov
- Oksana Fandera as Igla
- Mariya Mironova as Julie Lenard
- Mikhail Efremov as Mylnikov
- Fedor Bondarchuk as Col. Pyotr Burchinsky
- Emiliya Spivak as Esfir Litvinova
- Aleksandr Strizhenov as Grand Duke Simeon Alexandrovich
- Andrey Lebedev as doctor
- Yuri Kolokolnikov as Smolyaninov
- Aleksey Gorbunov as Rahmet
- Pavel Belozerov as Larionov
- Ekaterina Vulichenko
- Vladimir Zaytsev
- Rostislav Yankovskiy
- Igor Yasulovich
Crew
- Filipp Yankovskiy · Director
- Boris Akunin · Writer
- Leonid Vereshchagin · Producer
- Enri Lolashvili · Composer
- Vladislav Opelyants · Cinematographer
- Enzo Meniconi · Editor
- Yaroslav Mochalov · Editor
- Tamara Odintsova · Casting director
- Vladimir Aronin · Production designer