The State Counsellor

The State Counsellor

134 mins | Crime, Action, Mystery | April 21, 2005

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...

The State Counsellor

134 mins | Crime, Action, Mystery | April 21, 2005

The State Counsellor
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...
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers First Channel, Three T Productions, Mosfilm
Original title Статский советник
Directors Filipp Yankovsky
Writers Boris Akunin

Cast

Oleg Menshikov

as Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Nikita Mikhalkov

as Count Pozharsky

Vladimir Mashkov

as Kozyr

Oleg Tabakov

as Count Vladimir Dolgorukov

Oksana Fandera

as Igla

Mariya Mironova

as Julie Lenard

Mikhail Efremov

as Mylnikov

Fyodor 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

Sergey Bolotaev

as photographer

Vladimir Bolotnov

as Governor General's Bellhop

Olga Yurasova

as Sympathizer at Larionov's

Konstantin Spasskiy

as Pozharsky's guard

Kirill Gratsinsky

as Snegir

Filipp Yankovsky

as drunk hussar