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...
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Part of The Adventures of Erast Fandorin
3 films
Cast
34 people
Filipp Yankovsky Director · Boris Akunin Writer Enri Lolashvili Composer
Worldwide gross $7.7M · First release April 21, 2005 · Produced in Russia
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Worldwide gross
$7,726,507
Production
Studio Trite
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Channel One
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Mosfilm
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Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Three T Productions
Production
Russia
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Original title
Статский советник
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · April 21, 2005
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