The State Counsellor

The story

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...

In the same saga

The Adventures of Erast Fandorin

In release order

Azazel

2002

The Turkish Gambit

2005

This film

The State Counsellor

2005

Cast

O Oleg MenshikovErast Petrovich Fandorin N Nikita MikhalkovCount Pozharsky K Konstantin KhabenskiyGreen V Vladimir MashkovKozyr O Oleg TabakovCount Vladimir Dolgorukov O Oksana FanderaIgla M Mariya MironovaJulie Lenard M Mikhail EfremovMylnikov F Fyodor BondarchukCol. Pyotr Burchinsky E Emiliya SpivakEsfir Litvinova A Aleksandr StrizhenovGrand Duke Simeon Alexandrovich A Andrey Lebedevdoctor

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Y Yuri KolokolnikovSmolyaninov O Oleksiy HorbunovRahmet P Pavel BelozerovLarionov S Sergey Bolotaevphotographer V Vladimir BolotnovGovernor General's Bellhop O Olga YurasovaSympathizer at Larionov's K Konstantin SpasskiyPozharsky's guard K Kirill GratsinskySnegir O Oleg Zabolotnyy S Sergey Eremeev Y Yekaterina Vulichenko V Vladimir Krasnov A Andrey Savostyanov P Pavel Vashchilin V Vladimir Zaytsev F Filipp Yankovskydrunk hussar R Rostislav Yankovsky I Igor Yasulovich N Nikolay Solovyov D Dmitriy Mukhamadeev A Andrey Frolov E Edward Harutunyan