A Sacrifice for the Emperor (1991)

The film is based on documentary facts and tells the story of an officer in the Japanese General Staff who received the task under the name of Captain Rybnikov to infiltrate the military circles of St.Petersburg. It was exposed after the famous Tsushima battle of 1904, when Japan destroyed the entire Russian Far Eastern fleet.

Producers	Lenfilm
Original title	Жертва для императора
Directors	Roza Orynbasarova
Writers	Alexander Kuprin, Vitaly Moskalenko

Cast

Aleksandr Sporykhin

as Rybnikov

Sergey Kushakov

as Shchavinskiy

Aleksey Guskov

as Lyonechka

Leonid Voron

as sleuth

Svetlana Svirko

as Clothilde

Mikhail Shchetinin

as Matanya

Alisher Suleimenov

as chinese cook

Anna Afanasyeva

as Shchavinskaya

Yevgeni Yerokhin

as Prokhor

Yevgeni Merkuryev

as doorman

Aleksandr Kovalyov

as bellman

Zhanna Sukhopolskaya

as Bertha

Vladimir Glazkov

as Grisha Kulakov

Sergey Kudimov

as 'Pinkerton'