The Turkish Gambit (film)

The Turkish Gambit
Russian movie poster
Directed byDzhanik Fayziev
Screenplay byBoris Akunin
Dzhanik Fayziev
Produced byLeonid Vereshchagin
Anatoly Maximov
Konstantin Ernst
StarringEgor Beroev
Olga Krasko
Alexander Lykov
Music byVsevolod Saksonov
Andrei Feofanov
Production
company
Release date
  • 2005 (2005)
Running time
132 minutes
CountriesRussia
Bulgaria
LanguagesRussian
Bulgarian
Turkish
Romanian
English
French
Budget$3.5 million
Box office$18,461,000

The Turkish Gambit is a 2005 Russian historical spy film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's novel The Turkish Gambit featuring his most famous character, the detective Erast Fandorin. It was directed by Dzhanik Fayziev and written by Akunin himself.[1] The film starred Marat Basharov, Yegor Beroyev, and Olga Krasko. The Turkish Gambit was a box office success, although it received mixed reviews from critics.