The Turkish Gambit (2005)
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130 min
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.
- Release date
- February 22, 2005
- Country of origin
- Russia, Bulgaria
- Music
- Andrey Feofanov, Vsevolod Saksonov
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Box office
- $18,520,000
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Cast
- Egor Beroev as Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- Olga Krasko as Varvara Suvorova
- Marat Basharov as Gridnev
- Vladimir Ilin as Gen. Mizinov
- Dmitriy Pevtsov as Zurov
- Viktor Verzhbitskiy as Lukan
- Aleksandr Baluev as Gen. Sobolev
- Aleksei Guskov as Kazanzaki
- Gosha Kutsenko as Ismail-Bei
- Andrey Krasko as Non-comissionned Officer
- Leonid Kuravlyov as major
- Sergey Gazarov as governor Vidina
- Viktor Bychkov as cornet
- Velimir Velev as Anvar
- Evgeniy Lazarev as Aleksandr II
- Aleksandr Lykov as Perepyolkin
- Didier Bienaimé as Charles D'evreux
- Daniel Olbrychski as McLaughlin
- Aleksandr Oleshko as Petya Yablokov
- Valdis Pelsh as Danchenko
- Andrey Rudenskiy as Lestvitsky
- Anatoliy Kuznetsov as general Konetskiy
- Stanislav Duzhnikov as Semyon
- Raicho Vasilev as Ismail's bodyguard
- Oleg Makarov as Lunz
- Julian Vergov as Bulgarian Officer
- Valentin Ganev as Officer
- Niki Iliev
Crew
- Dzhanik Fayziev · Director
- Boris Akunin · Writer
- Andrey Feofanov · Composer
- Vsevolod Saksonov · Composer
- Andrey Zhegalov · Cinematographer
- Aleksey Nazarchuk · Editor