Bender: The Beginning

The story

Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.

In the same saga

Ostap Bender Collection

In release order

This film

Bender: The Beginning

2021

Ostap Bender: Gold of the Empire

2021

Ostap Bender: The Final Hustle

2021

Cast

S Sergey BezrukovIbrahim Suleiman Berta-Maria Bender-bay A Aram VardevanyanOstap Zadunayskiy N Nikita KologrivyyMishka Yaponchik T Taisiya VilkovaEva Mahulskaya - swindler O Olexander TsekaloMark Sokolovich Y Yuliya Rutbergmadam Sokolovich O Olga SutulovaBender's mother Y Yuri KolokolnikovGrigoriy Kotovskiy P Pavel DerevyankoNestor Mahno G Garik KharlamovValiadis - host cabaret P Pavel Maykov A Artyom TkachenkoAmetistov - staff captain

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A Alexander IlinMendel Vinnitskiy - Mishka's father Y Yuliya MakarovaSofi Sokolovich V Viktor TsekaloFunt E Elena Lazareva V Valeriy Lichinese M Mikhail SakulinKornilov's messenger Y Yuriy UtkinAdministrator A Andrey PankovWaiter D Dmitriy Penkov V Vera Kryukova I Igor KlyuchnikovZyama Raevskiy V Vladimir MatveevCaptain of the ship O Oleg ChugunovGrach - street child O Oksana BazilevichIsupova - baroness M Mikhail Shelomentsev N Natalya Bochkarevamadam Tsits G Georgiy ShtilFuks A Aleksey Dmitrievpartner of Makhulskaya - swindler - «Baron» R Rihards LepersMr. Hammett E Eduard Orlov V Vera BrezhnevaRobber A Aleksandr PetrovKarl Stolz A Aleksandr KakuevFuneral guest I Igor GoldobinKornilovets D Denis Shlenkovbandit Mendelya A Aleksandr Lapshov G Garik AyvazovIsa M Maxim KhanzhovFeodosiy Shchus V Vladislav ShkerinGorets Y Yuriy Petrov V Vitaliy Shabalovskiy V Vitaly KopninMakhnovets A Artyom DrachyovStreet child I Ilya Semyonovprisoner of Makhno M Maksimilian GrigoriyevVladek A Artur Musikhin P Pavel ElpashevNadziratel S Sergey DanilchukPlennyy V Vladimir LysenkoMakhnovets E Egor KelliMatros T Timofey OkulovPorter K Kristina Kulishenko A Aleksandr Aleynov R Roberto Fleitesbandit Mendelya I Ivan KaminskiyMatros D Dmitriy PereponovPort worker L Lyudmila GrigorashWasherwoman K Kseniya PatsinskayaMisha Yaponchik's girlfriend T Tatyana Andriyanova D Dmitry Golovanov