The Fall of the Empire

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The Fall of the Empire
Written byLeonid Yuzefovich
Vladimir Khotinenko
Directed byVladimir Khotinenko
StarringAleksandr Baluev
Sergei Makovetsky
Maria Mironova
Chulpan Khamatova
Country of originRussia
Original languageRussian
No. of episodes10
Production
Running time520 min.
Original release
NetworkChannel One Russia
Release2005 (2005) –
2005 (2005)

The Fall of the Empire (

TV miniseries in ten episodes directed by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005.[1][2]

It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence officer Sergei Pavlovich Kostin (Aleksandr Baluev), a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who works to uncover enemy plots aided by his sidekick Ivan Karlovich Shtol'ts (Marat Basharov).

Cast

Main characters of the series

  • Alexander Baluev
    as Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin
  • Sergei Makovetsky as Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky
  • Maria Mironova as Elena Ivanovna Saburova
  • Chulpan Khamatova as Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya
  • Marat Basharov as lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz
  • Andrey Krasko as non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov

The real historical figures in the series

Other characters

  • Ivan Agafonov as janitor
  • Sergey Astakhov as Karevsky
  • Andrey Astrakhantsev as socialist revolutionary Leonid Charny
  • Johan Bott as the German soldier Karl
  • Gosha Kutsenko as Gibson
  • Juozas Budraitis as Kranz
  • Axel Buchholz as Stolberg
  • Yuri Vasiliev as owner of the cinema "Lotos"
  • Viktor Verzhbitsky as Ghanaian
  • Sergei Garmash as Sakharov, the prophet "Kassandrov"
  • Tatyana Dogileva as hostess of the apartment, Zina's mother
  • Sergey Dreyden as Grohovsky
  • Aleksei Kravchenko
    as Staff Captain Rysin
  • Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev as socialist revolutionary Shilenko
  • Alexander Lykov as filmmaker
  • Dmitry Maryanov as Captain Bredel
  • Darya Moroz as maid Katya
  • Daniel Olbrychski as Strombakh
  • Sergey Parshin as Ryabikov
  • Alexander Pashkov as Mitya, driver (in 3rd and 6th episodes is named Pasha)
  • Alexander Polovtsev as Antipov
  • Ksenia Rappoport
    as Alina Gorskaya
  • Igor Sklyar as Ricks
  • Semyon Strugachyov as Franz Fleishman
  • Glafira Tarkhanova as Tanya Zaitseva
  • Mikhail Trukhin as Maletsky
  • Dmitry Ulyanov as Stetsevich
  • Nina Usatova as Zaitseva, Aunt Tanya
  • Ville Haapasalo as Tarvilainen
  • Konstantin Khabensky as Boris Sergeevich Lozovsky
  • Vladimir Khotinenko as Colonel Yakubov
  • Mikhail Porechenkov as captain with a white flag (finale of the 8th series, in titles is indicated as ensign)
  • André Hennicke as employee of the German embassy, then captain of the German army intelligence Rigert
  • Larissa Shakhvorostova as socialist revolutionary Kiseleva
  • Dmitriy Shevchenko as socialist revolutionary Semchenko
  • Justina Rudite as girl
  • Alexander Rublev as soldier (in the episodes "Red Bows" and "Prayer Officer")

References

  1. ^ "Гибель империи". VokrugTV.
  2. ^ "Гибель империи". Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema.

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