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.
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3 films
Cast
30 people
Egor Beroev
Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Known for
Dead Mountain: The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Admiral
Yevgeni Lazarev
Olga Krasko
Varvara Suvorova
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Marat Basharov
Mitya Gridnev
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Vladimir Ilin
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Dmitriy Pevtsov
count Ippolit Zurov
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Dead Man's Bluff
Viktor Verzhbitskiy
colonel Lukan
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Aleksandr Baluev
general Mikhail Sobolev
Known for
The Peacemaker
The Banishment
Aleksey Guskov
lieutenant colonel Kazanaki
Known for
The Concert
Silver Skates
Gosha Kutsenko
Ismail
Known for
Balkan Line
The Darkest Hour
Andrey Krasko
corporal
Known for
Bastards
Brother
Leonid Kuravlyov
major
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Viy
Brigada
Dzhanik Fayziev Director · Boris Akunin Writer Andrey Feofanov Composer
Worldwide gross $19M · Budget $4M · United States release November 11, 2005
Box office
Budget
$4,000,000
Worldwide gross
$18,520,000
Gross vs. budget
4.6×
Production
Studio Trite
Production
Channel One
Production
Three T Productions
Production
Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Турецкий гамбит
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Bulgarian · French · German · Russian · Turkish
Release dates
Russia · February 22, 2005
Theatrical
United States · November 11, 2005
Theatrical
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