The Turkish Gambit (2005)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Egor Beroev

Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Olga Krasko

Varvara Suvorova

Marat Basharov

Mitya Gridnev

Vladimir Ilin

general Lavrentiy Mizinov

Dmitriy Pevtsov

count Ippolit Zurov

Viktor Verzhbitskiy

colonel Lukan

Aleksandr Baluev

general Mikhail Sobolev

Aleksey Guskov

lieutenant colonel Kazanaki

Gosha Kutsenko

Ismail

Andrey Krasko

corporal

Leonid Kuravlyov

major

Sergey Gazarov

governor Vidina

Director & Crew

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