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The Turkish Gambit
MEANRANK
67/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2914
- Kinopoisk #1823
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 56, highest is Kinopoisk on 72.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in 1877 during the Russian-Turkish war. Erast Fandorin has just escaped from Turkish prison and is trying to get on the Russian side as soon as possible to give important information about the upcoming attack of the enemy. On his way he meets Varvara Suvorova, a young lady who is going to see her fiancée - a soldier of the Russian army. Erast also knows that there is a spy somewhere in the Russian army, everyone is under suspicion.
Details
- Director
- Dzhanik Fayziev
- Writer
- Boris Akunin
- Based on
- a work by Boris Akunin
- Studio
- Studio Trite, Channel One
- Released
- 22 February 2005
- Country
- Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $18.5M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| MTV Russia Movie Awards 2005 | MTV Russia Movie Awards | Winner | |
| Russian National Movie Awards 2005 | Russian National Movie Awards | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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2 awards — The Turkish Gambit
×| MTV Russia Movie Awards | Winner |
| Russian National Movie Awards | Winner |