Jan 02, 1991
85 min
Full-HD

A Sacrifice for the Emperor (1991)

The film is based on documentary facts and tells the story of an officer in the Japanese General Staff who received the task under the name of Captain Rybnikov to infiltrate the military circles of St.Petersburg. It was exposed after the famous Tsushima battle of 1904, when Japan destroyed the entire Russian Far Eastern fleet.

Category

Drama History

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Lenfilm

Aleksandr Sporykhin

Rybnikov

Sergey Kushakov

Schavinsky

Aleksey Guskov

Lyonechka

Leonid Voron

sleuth

Svetlana Svirko

Clothilde

Mikhail Shchetinin

Matanya

Anna Afanasyeva

Shchavinskaya

Yevgeni Yerokhin

Prokhor

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