
Cinetrā

Cinetrā

Виват, гардемарины! (original title)
1744. Russian Empire. Being childless, but at the same time wanting to finally consolidate on the Russian throne of his - "Peter's" line of the Romanov dynasty, Empress Elizabeth Petrovna decides to marry his nephew Karl Peter Ulrich, brought from Prussia, called in Russia "Peter Fyodorovich" to some noble, but preferably not very rich and not very willful European "princess". Elizabeth is intrigued by the brave young guardsman and his intercession for Yaguzhinskaya, and she gives Belov "an assignment of national importance" - to secretly bring his important guests to Russia from Prussia. The ubiquitous vice-chancellor Bestuzhev learns about it. He summons Alexei Korsak, Belov's friend who will keep Alexander company on his trip to Prussia, and instructs him to become a spy on Belov, threatening Korsak with "exile to the galleys" and "Siberia" for his wife and young son if he refuses.
Cast: Sergey Zhigunov, Dmitriy Kharatyan, Mikhail Mamayev, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Kristina Orbakayte, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Tatyana Lyutaeva, Natalya Gundareva, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Vladimir Balon, Mikhail Efremov, Olga Mashnaya, Pauls Butkevics, Sergey Migitsko, Viktor Bortsov, Sergey Nikonenko, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Vladimir Soshalsky, Leonid Satanovskiy, Aleksey Vanin
Writers: Nina Sorotokina (Screenplay), Nina Sorotokina (Novel), Yuriy Nagibin (Screenplay), Svetlana Druzhinina (Screenplay)
Cinematographer: Anatoliy Mukasey
Production Designer: Vladimir Korolyov, Vladimir Aronin
Composer: Viktor Lebedev
Costume Designer: Marina Zdornova
Direction team: Sergei Akopov (Co-Director), I. Pytina (Assistant Director), Viktor Kharitonov (Assistant Director), Iya Mikhaylova (Assistant Director), Marina Malyukova (Co-Director)
Network: First Channel Ostankino