The Fall of the Empire
{{Infobox television
| image = The_Fall_of_the_Empire.jpg
| caption =
| runtime = 520 min.
| creator =
| director = Vladimir Khotinenko
| producer =
| writer = Leonid Yuzefovich
Vladimir Khotinenko
| starring = Aleksandr Baluev
Sergei Makovetsky
Maria Mironova
Chulpan Khamatova
| music =
| country = Russia
| language = Russian
| network = Channel One Russia
| first_aired = {{start date|2005}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2005}}
| num_episodes = 10
}}
The Fall of the Empire ({{langx|ru|Гибель империи|Gibel' imperii}}) is a Russian crime, thriller TV miniseries in ten episodes directed and co-written by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vokrug.tv/product/show/gibel_imperii/|publisher=VokrugTV|title=Гибель империи}}{{Cite web|url=http://2011.russiancinema.ru/index.php?e_dept_id=2&e_movie_id=7662|publisher=Encyclopedia of Russian Cinema|title=Гибель империи}}
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
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{IMDb title|tt0456781}}
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Category:World War I television films
Category:World War I spy films
Category:Russian television miniseries
Category:2005 in Russian television
Category:Films directed by Vladimir Khotinenko
Category:Television series based on actual events
Category:2005 Russian television series debuts
Category:2005 Russian television series endings
Category:Russian drama television series
Category:Channel One (Russia) original programming
Category:Russian World War I films
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