A Sacrifice for the Emperor (1991)
The film is based on documentary facts and tells the story of an officer in the Japanese General Staff who received the task under the name of Captain Rybnikov to infiltrate the military circles of St.Petersburg. It was exposed after the famous Tsushima battle of 1904, when Japan destroyed the entire Russian Far Eastern fleet.
Director: Roza Orynbasarova
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Aleksandr Sporykhin as Rybnikov |
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Sergey Kushakov as Schavinsky |
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Aleksey Guskov as Lyonechka |
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Leonid Voron as sleuth |
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Svetlana Svirko as Clothilde |
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Mikhail Shchetinin as Matanya |
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Anna Afanasyeva as Shchavinskaya |
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Yevgeni Yerokhin as Prokhor |
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Yevgeni Merkuryev as doorman |
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Zhanna Sukhopolskaya as Bertha |
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Vladimir Glazkov as Grisha Kulakov |
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Sergey Kudimov as 'Pinkerton' |
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Alisher Suleimenov as |
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Aleksandr Kovalyov as bellman |
| Writing | Aleksandr Kuprin | Novel |
| Directing | Roza Orynbasarova | Director |
| Camera | Sergey Yurizditskiy | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Vitaly Moskalenko | Writer |
| Sound | Andrey Sigle | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Sergey Kokovkin | Production Design |
| Editing | Olga Amosova | Editor |
| Sound | Konstantin Zarin | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolai Pilyavskiy | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Tarakanova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yelizaveta Kolchevskaya | Costume Design |