A Sacrifice for the Emperor (1992)
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 |
| Editing | Olga Amosova | Editor |
| Writing | Vitaly Moskalenko | Writer |
| Art | Sergey Kokovkin | Production Design |
| Sound | Andrey Sigle | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yelizaveta Kolchevskaya | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nikolay Pilyavskiy | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Tarakanova | Costume Design |
| Sound | Konstantin Zarin | Sound |
| Visual Effects | Vitaliy Bianki | Visual Effects Camera |