Film

The Turkish Gambit

2005 · 2h 10m · Mystery · Adventure · Action

IMDb

6.9

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.

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

Viktor Bychkov

cornet

Velimir Velev

Anvar

Evgeniy Lazarev

Aleksandr II

Aleksandr Lykov

Perepyolkin

• Dzhanik FayzievDirector
• Boris AkuninWriter · Novel
• Anatoliy MaksimovProducer
• Konstantin ErnstProducer
• Nikita MikhalkovProducer
• Leonid VereshchaginProducer
• Andrei ZhegalovDirector of Photography
• Andrey FeofanovOriginal Music Composer
• Vsevolod SaksonovOriginal Music Composer

Release date

February 22, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 10m

Budget

$4,000,000

Revenue

$18,520,000

Genres

Mystery, Adventure, Action, Drama, History