Synopsis
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
Ratings
IMDb6.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes43%
Metacritic55/100
104 audience votes
Key crew
- Aleksei MizgiryovDirector
- Aleksei MizgiryovWriter
- Igor VdovinOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Pyotr FyodorovYakovlev
- Vladimir MashkovEarl Beklemishev
- Franziska PetriAleksandra Iosifovna
- Martin WuttkeGerman Baron
- Sergey GarmashOne-armed nobleman
- Yuri KolokolnikovBasargin
- Aleksandr YatsenkoYakovlev Jr.
- Yuriy KuznetsovServant
- Anton Kuznetsovmerchant, gunsmith
- Dmitriy KulichkovChichagov
- Pavel TabakovPrince Tuchkov
- Yuliya KhlyninaMarfa Tuchkova
Stills
Themes
fightrevenge19th century