Azazel (miniseries)
| Azazel | |
|---|---|
Marina Neelova | |
| Cinematography | Mikhail Agranovich |
| Music by | Vladimir Dashkevich |
Release date |
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Running time | 204 minutes |
| Country | Russian |
Azazel (
.Plot summary
This historical detective story features a young police inspector, Erast Fandorin. Fandorin's adventures take place in the Russian Empire of the late 19th century, and he regularly finds himself at the center of key historical events, including development of Masonic and Revolutionary movements.
The hero is a young man, newly enlisted in the police force of the 1870s. This is a world with no forensic science, a rigid social structure and rigid proprieties, and police investigation techniques which respect the intuition of the intelligent amateur or newcomer. Fandorin is inexperienced, naive, downwardly mobile (the family fortune having evaporated), but cultured, intelligent, diligent, and desperately enthusiastic. He doesn't so much want to impress as want to succeed ... by a process of blind self-confidence and a youthful self-delusion that he is acting logically and scientifically. Fandorin is invited to investigate the suicide of a rich student. The young man has shot himself in public, but something seems strange about the suicide. Fandorin quickly exposes the murderous intrigue which has led to the death ... and opens up a can of worms which will have him crossing Europe in search of a mastermind ... or maybe even the godfathers behind a terrorist plot.
Cast
- Ilya Noskov – Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- Sergey Bezrukov – Ivan Franzevich Brilling
- Marina Aleksandrova – Elizaveta von Evert-Kolokoltseva
- Oleg Basilashvili – General Mizinov
- Sergei Chonishvili – Ippolit Alexandrovich Zurov
- Marina Neyolova – Lady Esther
- Yuri Avsharov – Georg
- Felix Antipov – Xavery Feofilaktovich Grushin
- Larisa Borushko – Amalia Kazimirovna Bezhetskaya
- Dmitry Burkhankin – Kokorin
- Valentin Golubenko – Klaus
- Yevgeni Grishkovetz – Achimas Velde
Remake
English-language version
Dutch film director
New Russian Version
In August 2022, Plus Studios has announces the completion of the filming of the new Azazel adaptation based on the bestseller by Boris Akunin. An aspiring detective lives in an alternative year of 2023, with modern technology and robotics helping him investigate. At the same time, Russia is still a monarchical system, since the only revolution that the country has experienced is technological. It was premiered on Kinopoisk HD streaming service in January 2023.
According to the sources, the official synopsis is that The October revolution did not take place, the Bolsheviks did not come to power, and
The showrunner of the project is Alexandra Remizova (who worked on “Trigger”, “Patient Zero”), the director is Nurbek Egen (“Alibi”, “Sherlock in Russia”). The series also stars Mila Ershova, Alexander Semchev, Milena Radulovich (from "Balkan Frontier"), Artem Bystrov, Grigory Vernik. Erast Fandorin was played by Vladislav Tiron .
References
- ^ http://www.millaj.com/film/winterqueen.shtml MillaJ.com interview
