The State Councilor

Studio TRITE, 2005

Directed by Filipp Yankovsky
Art director - Nikita Mikhalkov
Art stage manager - Vladimir Aronin
Camera by Vladislav Opelyants
Music by Enri Lolashvili
Lyrics by Ilya Yelitsev
Vocal by Feliks Ilyinykh

Cast:
Fandorin - Oleg Menshikov
Pozharsky - Nikita Mikhalkov
Esphir - Emilia Spivak
Green - Konstantin Khabensky
Igla - Oksana Fandera
Julie - Maria Mironova
Kozyr - Vladimir Mashkov
Dolgorutsky - Oleg Tabakov
Burchinsky - Fyodor Bondarchuk
Mylnikov - Mikhail Efremov
Rakhmet - Aleksey Gorbunov
Masa - Masami Agava-san


The screen version of Boris Akunin's novel "The State Councilor".
A theatre version was serialized in four episodes for TV.

Awards:

The Prize of spectator sympathies of the International Film Festival The Baltic Debuts, 2005.
The best producer project of the year of the International Film Festival Kino-Yalta, 2005.

Review

• Special Forces.Tsarist investigators seek to foil a radical plot in the latest film featuring Erast Fandorin,
  the hero of Boris Akunin's best-selling detective novels
  Tom Birchenough, "The Moscow Times", April 22, 2005.
  
• Russia's James Bond
  Olga Kalashnikova, "St. Petersberg Times", April 22, 2005.
  
• Statsky Sovetnik (Councilor of State). Culture Reviews
  Sam Gerrans, The Moscow Expat Site, April 25, 2005.
  
• The real McCoy
  Matthew Duncan,"The St. Petersburg Times", April 29, 2005.
  

• "The State Councilor" at the Stepan Razin Embankment.
  Andrei Tolstoy, Konstantin Romin,"Tverskaya Zhizn", January 27, 2004.
  
• A writer Boris Akunin and film-making
  Ye. Monich,"Voice of Russia" (date is unknown).
  

• About shooting. TV Channel 1 (Russia)
• Fandorin in Kremlin. About shooting. TV Channel 1 (Russia)
• Ad Trailer
  (source - official site of TV Channel 1)
• The State Councilor. Official trailer
  (source - The State Councilor. Official site)
• About the serial version of the movie
  (source - official site of TV Channel 1)
• About the premiere in a cinema theatre
  (source - Channel "Cultura")

• The soundtrack from the movie "The State Councilor"
  (source - The State Councilor. Official site)
• The song from the movie "The State Councilor"
  

• The scene from the movie "The State Councilor"
  
• The night scene (Fandorin and Pozharsky)
  
• The final scene from the movie "The State Councilor"
  

• The State Councilor. Official site
• Boris Akunin. The State Councilor (Russian only)

• Episode 1 (350 Mb)
  
• Episode 2 (349 Mb)
  
• Episode 3 (350 Mb)
  
• Episode 4 (350 Mb)