The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit

130 mins | Drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery, History | Feb. 22, 2005

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.

The Turkish Gambit

130 mins | Drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery, History | Feb. 22, 2005

The Turkish Gambit
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers First Channel, Three T Productions
Original title Турецкий гамбит
Directors Dzhanik Fayziev
Writers Boris Akunin

Cast

Egor Beroev

as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Olga Krasko

as Varvara Suvorova

Marat Basharov

as Mitya Gridnev

Vladimir Ilin

as general Lavrentiy Mizinov

Dmitriy Pevtsov

as count Ippolit Zurov

Viktor Verzhbitskiy

as colonel Lukan

Aleksandr Baluev

as general Mikhail Sobolev

Aleksey Guskov

as lieutenant colonel Kazanaki

Gosha Kutsenko

as Ismail

Andrey Krasko

as corporal

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 Pelšs

as Danchenko

Andrey Rudensky

as Lestvitsky

Anatoliy Kuznetsov

as general Konetskiy

Raicho Vasilev

as Ismail's bodyguard

Oleg Makarov

as Lunz