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The Turkish Gambit
2005 6.4 (81 votes) 2h 10m
Genres
Mystery Adventure Action Drama History
Production Companies
Studio Trite
Channel One

The Turkish Gambit (Турецкий гамбит)

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Director: Dzhanik Fayziev

Writer: Boris Akunin

Producer: Konstantin Ernst, Anatoliy Maksimov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereshchagin

Director of Photography: Andrei Zhegalov

Top Cast

Egor Beroev
Egor Beroev

Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Olga Krasko
Olga Krasko

Varvara Suvorova

Marat Basharov
Marat Basharov

Mitya Gridnev

Vladimir Ilin
Vladimir Ilin

general Lavrentiy Mizinov

Dmitriy Pevtsov
Dmitriy Pevtsov

count Ippolit Zurov

Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Viktor Verzhbitskiy

colonel Lukan

Aleksandr Baluev
Aleksandr Baluev

general Mikhail Sobolev

Aleksey Guskov
Aleksey Guskov

lieutenant colonel Kazanaki

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