The State Counsellor

The State Counsellor — Plot

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...

• Release date
• April 21, 2005
• Runtime
• 134 min
• Genres
• Action, Crime, Mystery
• Director
• Filipp Yankovsky

The State Counsellor — 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