The State Counsellor (2005)

5.5/10 134 min Action Crime Mystery

Overview

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...

Cast

Oleg Menshikov

Erast Petrovich Fandorin

Nikita Mikhalkov

Count Pozharsky

Konstantin Khabenskiy

Green

Vladimir Mashkov

Kozyr

Oleg Tabakov

Count Vladimir Dolgorukov

Oksana Fandera

Igla

Mariya Mironova

Julie Lenard

Mikhail Efremov

Mylnikov

Fyodor Bondarchuk

Col. Pyotr Burchinsky

Emiliya Spivak

Esfir Litvinova

Aleksandr Strizhenov

Grand Duke Simeon Alexandrovich

Andrey Lebedev

doctor

Yuri Kolokolnikov

Smolyaninov

Oleksiy Horbunov

Rahmet

Pavel Belozerov

Larionov

Sergey Bolotaev

photographer

Vladimir Bolotnov

Governor General's Bellhop

Olga Yurasova

Sympathizer at Larionov's

Konstantin Spasskiy

Pozharsky's guard

Kirill Gratsinsky

Snegir

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