

130 minutes
2/22/2005
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.

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

Stanislav Duzhnikov
as Semyon

Stanislav Pishtalov

Raicho Vasilev
as Ismail's bodyguard

Oleg Makarov
as Lunz