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2005 Russian TV series or program

The Fall of the Empire

Written by	Leonid Yuzefovich Vladimir Khotinenko
Directed by	Vladimir Khotinenko
Starring	Aleksandr Baluev Sergei Makovetsky Maria Mironova Chulpan Khamatova
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	520 min.
Original release
Network	Channel One Russia
Release	2005 (2005) – 2005 (2005)

The Fall of the Empire (Russian: Гибель империи, romanized: Gibel' imperii) is a Russian crime, thriller TV miniseries in ten episodes directed and co-written by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005.

It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence officer Sergei Pavlovich Kostin (Aleksandr Baluev), a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who works to uncover enemy plots aided by his sidekick Ivan Karlovich Shtol'ts (Marat Basharov).

Cast

Main characters of the series

Alexander Baluev as Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin
Sergei Makovetsky as Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky
Maria Mironova as Elena Ivanovna Saburova
Chulpan Khamatova as Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya
Marat Basharov as lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz
Andrey Krasko as non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov

The real historical figures in the series

Vladislav Galkin as head of counterintelligence Boris Nikitin
Sergei Nikonenko as Paul von Rennenkampf
Alexander Bashirov as Lavr Kornilov
Fyodor Bondarchuk as Anton Denikin
Dmitry Pevtsov as Nikolay Dukhonin
Andrey Nevraev as Emperor Nicholas II
Andrei Zibrov as Pavel Pereverzev
Alexander Mezentsev as General Aleksei Brusilov
Alexey Medvedev as Nikolai Krylenko
Danil Lavrenov as Leonid Kannegisser
Alexander Voitov as Moisei Uritsky
Yuri Tsurilo as Yuri Steklov
Valentina Kasyanova as Nadezhda Krupskaya
Victor Smirnov as Colonel Moroz (prototype Viktor Klimenko)
Mariya Poroshina as socialist revolutionary Maria Kovskaya (prototype Irina Kakhovskaya)
Stanislav Nikolsky as Semyon Roshal
Viktor Bychkov as Stepnin, also as Yakov Ganetsky
Alexander Pashutin as General Grigoriev

Other characters

Ivan Agafonov as janitor
Sergey Astakhov as Karevsky
Andrey Astrakhantsev as socialist revolutionary Leonid Charny
Johan Bott as the German soldier Karl
Gosha Kutsenko as Gibson
Juozas Budraitis as Kranz
Axel Buchholz as Stolberg
Yuri Vasiliev as owner of the cinema "Lotos"
Viktor Verzhbitsky as Ghanaian
Sergei Garmash as Sakharov, the prophet "Kassandrov"
Tatyana Dogileva as hostess of the apartment, Zina's mother
Sergey Dreyden as Grohovsky
Aleksei Kravchenko as Staff Captain Rysin
Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev as socialist revolutionary Shilenko
Alexander Lykov as filmmaker
Dmitry Maryanov as Captain Bredel
Darya Moroz as maid Katya
Daniel Olbrychski as Strombakh
Sergey Parshin as Ryabikov
Alexander Pashkov as Mitya, driver (in 3rd and 6th episodes is named Pasha)
Alexander Polovtsev as Antipov
Ksenia Rappoport as Alina Gorskaya
Igor Sklyar as Ricks
Semyon Strugachyov as Franz Fleishman
Glafira Tarkhanova as Tanya Zaitseva
Mikhail Trukhin as Maletsky
Dmitry Ulyanov as Stetsevich
Nina Usatova as Zaitseva, Aunt Tanya
Ville Haapasalo as Tarvilainen
Konstantin Khabensky as Boris Sergeevich Lozovsky
Vladimir Khotinenko as Colonel Yakubov
Mikhail Porechenkov as captain with a white flag (finale of the 8th series, in titles is indicated as ensign)
André Hennicke as employee of the German embassy, then captain of the German army intelligence Rigert
Larissa Shakhvorostova as socialist revolutionary Kiseleva
Dmitriy Shevchenko as socialist revolutionary Semchenko
Justina Rudite as girl
Alexander Rublev as soldier (in the episodes "Red Bows" and "Prayer Officer")

References

"Гибель империи". VokrugTV.
"Гибель империи". Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema.

External links

The Fall of the Empire at IMDb

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