Overview
Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
Cast
- Pyotr Fyodorov as Yakovlev
- Vladimir Mashkov as Earl Beklemishev
- Franziska Petri as Aleksandra Iosifovna
- Martin Wuttke as German Baron
- Sergey Garmash as One-armed nobleman
- Yuri Kolokolnikov as Basargin
- Aleksandr Yatsenko as Yakovlev Jr.
- Yuriy Kuznetsov as Servant
- Anton Kuznetsov as merchant, gunsmith
- Dmitriy Kulichkov as Chichagov