Bender: The Beginning

Bender: The Beginning (2021)

AdventureComedyActionDrama

Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation... as well as brute force.

Director: Igor Zaytsev
Writer: Oleg Malovichko

Casts

	Sergei Bezrukov as Ibrahim Suleiman Berta-Maria Bender-bay
	Aram Vardevanyan as Ostap Zadunayskiy
	Nikita Kologrivyy as Mishka Yaponchik
	Taisiya Vilkova as Eva Mahulskaya - swindler
	Aleksandr Tsekalo as Mark Sokolovich
	Yuliya Rutberg as madam Sokolovich
	Olga Sutulova as Bender's mother
	Yuri Kolokolnikov as Grigoriy Kotovskiy
	Pavel Derevyanko as Nestor Mahno
	Garik Kharlamov as Valiadis - host cabaret
	Pavel Maykov as
	Artyom Tkachenko as Ametistov - staff captain
	Aleksandr Ilin as Mendel Vinnitskiy - Mishka's father
	Yuliya Makarova as Sofi Sokolovich
	Viktor Tsekalo as Funt
	Elena Lazareva as
	Valeriy Li as chinese
	Mikhail Sakulin as Kornilov's messenger
	Yuriy Utkin as Administrator
	Andrey Pankov as Waiter
	Dmitriy Penkov as
	Vera Kryukova as
	Igor Klyuchnikov as Zyama Raevskiy
	Vladimir Matveev as Captain of the ship
	Oleg Chugunov as Grach - street child
	Oksana Bazilevich as Isupova - baroness
	Mikhail Shelomentsev as
	Natalya Bochkareva as madam Tsits
	Georgiy Shtil as Fuks
	Aleksey Dmitriev as partner of Makhulskaya - swindler - «Baron»
	Rihards Lepers as Mr. Hammett
	Eduard Orlov as
	Vera Brezhneva as Robber
	Aleksandr Petrov as Karl Stolz
	Aleksandr Kakuev as Funeral guest
	Igor Goldobin as Kornilovets
	Denis Shlenkov as bandit Mendelya
	Aleksandr Lapshov as
	Garik Ayvazov as Isa
	Maxim Khanzhov as Feodosiy Shchus
	Vladislav Shkerin as Gorets
	Yuriy Petrov as
	Vitaliy Shabalovskiy as
	Vitaly Kopnin as Makhnovets
	Artyom Drachyov as Street child
	Ilya Semyonov as prisoner of Makhno
	Maksimilian Grigoriyev as Vladek
	Artur Musikhin as
	Pavel Elpashev as Nadziratel
	Sergey Danilchuk as Plennyy
	Vladimir Lysenko as Makhnovets
	Egor Kelli as Matros
	Timofey Okulov as Porter
	Kristina Kulishenko as
	Aleksandr Aleynov as
	Roberto Fleites as bandit Mendelya
	Ivan Kaminskiy as Matros
	Dmitriy Pereponov as Port worker
	Lyudmila Grigorash as Washerwoman
	Kseniya Patsinskaya as Misha Yaponchik's girlfriend
	Tatyana Andriyanova as
	Dmitry Golovanov as

Crew