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The State Counsellor

The State Counsellor

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 21, 2005

Runtime

2h 14m

Genres

Action, Crime, Mystery

User Score

57%

Original Title

Статский советник

Production Companies

Studio Trite, Channel One, Mosfilm

Director

Filipp Yankovsky

Revenue

$7,726,507

Description

Third film based on Boris Akunin's "Priklucheniya Erasta Petrovicha Fandorina" series of novels. On a train from St. Petersburg to Moscow general Khrapov was killed and no one else but Erast Petrovich is under suspicion because the killer pretended to be Fandorin. There are initials BG on the handle of the knife Khrapov was stabbed with, the initials belong to a terrorist organization which keeps both capital cities (Moscow and St. Petersburg) in fear. This time Fandorin is not the only one trying to solve the crime, general Pozharski, a famous detective takes over the investigation...