Azazel (film)

Azazel

Directed by	Aleksandr Adabashyan
Written by	Boris Akunin
Starring	Ilya Noskov Kirill Pirogov Sergej Bezrukov Oleg Basilashvili Marina Neelova Ewa Szykulska
Music by	Vladimir Dashkevich
Cinematography	Mikhail Agranovich
Running time	204 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Azazel (2002) (Russian: Азазель) is a Russian made for TV adaptation of Boris Akunin's introductory 'Erast Fandorin' novel The Winter Queen.

Plot summary

This historical detective story features a young police inspector, Erast Fandorin. Fandorin’s adventures take place in the Russian Empire of the late 19th century, and he regularly finds himself at the center of key historical events, including development of Masonic and Revolutionary movements.

The hero is a young man, newly enlisted in the police force of the 1870s. This is a world with no forensic science, a rigid social structure and rigid proprieties, and police investigation techniques which respect the intuition of the intelligent amateur or newcomer. Fandorin is inexperienced, naive, downwardly mobile (the family fortune having evaporated), but cultured, intelligent, diligent, and desperately enthusiastic. He doesn't so much want to impress as want to succeed ... by a process of blind self-confidence and a youthful self-delusion that he is acting logically and scientifically. Fandorin is invited to investigate the suicide of a rich student. The young man has shot himself in public, but something seems strange about the suicide. Fandorin quickly exposes the murderous intrigue which has led to the death ... and opens up a can of worms which will have him crossing Europe in search of a mastermind ... or maybe even the godfathers behind a terrorist plot.

Cast

Ilya Noskov – Erast Petrovich Fandorin
Sergey Bezrukov – Ivan Franzevich Brilling
Marina Aleksandrova – Elizaveta von Evert-Kolokoltseva
Oleg Basilashvili – General Mizinov
Sergei Chonishvili – Ippolit Alexandrovich Zurov
Marina Neyolova – Lady Esther
Yuri Avsharov – Georg
Felix Antipov – Xavery Feofilaktovich Grushin
Larisa Borushko – Amalia Kazimirovna Bezhetskaya
Dmitry Burkhankin – Kokorin
Valentin Golubenko – Klaus
Yevgeni Grishkovetz – Achimas Velde

English language version

Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven was set to film an English-language theatrical film remake of Azazel, titled "The Winter Queen", with Dan Stevens set to star as Fandorin and the leading female role to be played by Milla Jovovich. This movie was cancelled.^[1]

References

↑ http://www.millaj.com/film/winterqueen.shtml MillaJ.com interview

External links

Works by Boris Akunin
Erast Fandorin series	The Winter Queen The Turkish Gambit Murder on the Leviathan The Death of Achilles Special Assignments The State Counsellor The Coronation She Lover of Death He Lover of Death The Diamond Chariot Jade Rosary Beads All the World's a Stage The Black City Planet Water
Nicholas Fandorin series	Altyn Tolobas Extracurricular Reading F.M. Falcon and Swallow
Sister Pelagia series	Pelagia and the White Bulldog Pelagia and the Black Monk Pelagia and the Red Rooster
Brüderschaft with Death series	The Infant and the Devil The Torment of a Broken Heart The Flying Elephant Children of the Moon
Adaptations	Azazel (2002) The Turkish Gambit (2005) The State Counsellor (2005) Spy (2012)

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