A Sacrifice for the Emperor
1992 · 1h 25m
Drama, History
Directed by
Roza Orynbasarova
Overview
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 and cast
- Roza Orynbasarova Director
- Aleksandr Sporykhin as Rybnikov
- Sergey Kushakov as Schavinsky
- Aleksey Guskov as Lyonechka
- Leonid Voron as sleuth
- Svetlana Svirko as Clothilde
- Mikhail Shchetinin as Matanya
- Anna Afanasyeva as Shchavinskaya
- Yevgeni Yerokhin as Prokhor
- Yevgeni Merkuryev as doorman
- Zhanna Sukhopolskaya as Bertha
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