The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 22, 2005
• Runtime
• 130 min
• Genres
• Mystery, Adventure, Action, Drama, History
• Director
• Dzhanik Fayziev

The Turkish Gambit — Cast

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