The State Counsellor · 2005 ·
Movie Details
Production information
12 fields
Released
2005-04-21
Runtime
134 min
Genre
Action, Crime, Mystery
Director
Filipp Yankovsky
Writer
Boris Akunin, Ilya Epishchev
Country
Russia
Language
Russian
Original Title
Статский советник
Status
Released
Revenue
$7,726,507
Production
Studio Trite, Channel One, Mosfilm, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Cast
Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Mashkov, Oleg Tabakov, Oksana Fandera, Mariya Mironova, Mikhail Efremov, Fyodor Bondarchuk, Emiliya Spivak
Storyline
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...
