The Fall of the Empire

The Fall of the Empire
Written by	Leonid Yuzefovich Vladimir Khotinenko
Directed by	Vladimir Khotinenko
Starring	Aleksandr Baluev Sergei Makovetsky Maria Mironova Chulpan Khamatova
Country of origin	Russia
Original language	Russian
No. of episodes	10
Production
Running time	520 min.
Original release
Network	Channel One Russia
Release	2005 (2005) – 2005 (2005)

The Fall of the Empire (Russian: Гибель империи, romanized: Gibel' imperii) is a Russian crime, thriller TV miniseries in ten episodes directed and co-written by Vladimir Khotinenko, broadcast in March 2005.

It is set in World War I, following Russian counterintelligence officer Sergei Pavlovich Kostin (Aleksandr Baluev), a veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, who works to uncover enemy plots aided by his sidekick Ivan Karlovich Shtol'ts (Marat Basharov).

Cast

Main characters of the series

• Alexander Baluev as Captain of counterintelligence Sergei Pavlovich Kostin
• Sergei Makovetsky as Professor of Law, and then the captain of the Army Intelligence Alexander Mikhailovich Nesterovsky
• Maria Mironova as Elena Ivanovna Saburova
• Chulpan Khamatova as Olga Semenovna Nesterovskaya
• Marat Basharov as lieutenant counterintelligence Ivan Karlovich Stolz
• Andrey Krasko as non-commissioned counterintelligence officer Nikolai Alexeyevich Strelnikov

The real historical figures in the series

• Vladislav Galkin as head of counterintelligence Boris Nikitin
• Sergei Nikonenko as Paul von Rennenkampf
• Alexander Bashirov as Lavr Kornilov
• Fyodor Bondarchuk as Anton Denikin
• Dmitry Pevtsov as Nikolay Dukhonin
• Andrey Nevraev as Emperor Nicholas II
• Andrei Zibrov as Pavel Pereverzev
• Alexander Mezentsev as General Aleksei Brusilov
• Alexey Medvedev as Nikolai Krylenko
• Danil Lavrenov as Leonid Kannegisser
• Alexander Voitov as Moisei Uritsky
• Yuri Tsurilo as Yuri Steklov
• Valentina Kasyanova as Nadezhda Krupskaya
• Victor Smirnov as Colonel Moroz (prototype Viktor Klimenko)
• Mariya Poroshina as socialist revolutionary Maria Kovskaya (prototype Irina Kakhovskaya)
• Stanislav Nikolsky as Semyon Roshal
• Viktor Bychkov as Stepnin, also as Yakov Ganetsky
• Alexander Pashutin as General Grigoriev

Other characters

• Ivan Agafonov as janitor
• Sergey Astakhov as Karevsky
• Andrey Astrakhantsev as socialist revolutionary Leonid Charny
• Johan Bott as the German soldier Karl
• Gosha Kutsenko as Gibson
• Juozas Budraitis as Kranz
• Axel Buchholz as Stolberg
• Yuri Vasiliev as owner of the cinema "Lotos"
• Viktor Verzhbitsky as Ghanaian
• Sergei Garmash as Sakharov, the prophet "Kassandrov"
• Tatyana Dogileva as hostess of the apartment, Zina's mother
• Sergey Dreyden as Grohovsky
• Aleksei Kravchenko as Staff Captain Rysin
• Yevgeny Leonov-Gladyshev as socialist revolutionary Shilenko
• Alexander Lykov as filmmaker
• Dmitry Maryanov as Captain Bredel
• Darya Moroz as maid Katya
• Daniel Olbrychski as Strombakh
• Sergey Parshin as Ryabikov
• Alexander Pashkov as Mitya, driver (in 3rd and 6th episodes is named Pasha)
• Alexander Polovtsev as Antipov
• Ksenia Rappoport as Alina Gorskaya
• Igor Sklyar as Ricks
• Semyon Strugachyov as Franz Fleishman
• Glafira Tarkhanova as Tanya Zaitseva
• Mikhail Trukhin as Maletsky
• Dmitry Ulyanov as Stetsevich
• Nina Usatova as Zaitseva, Aunt Tanya
• Ville Haapasalo as Tarvilainen
• Konstantin Khabensky as Boris Sergeevich Lozovsky
• Vladimir Khotinenko as Colonel Yakubov
• Mikhail Porechenkov as captain with a white flag (finale of the 8th series, in titles is indicated as ensign)
• André Hennicke as employee of the German embassy, then captain of the German army intelligence Rigert
• Larissa Shakhvorostova as socialist revolutionary Kiseleva
• Dmitriy Shevchenko as socialist revolutionary Semchenko
• Justina Rudite as girl
• Alexander Rublev as soldier (in the episodes "Red Bows" and "Prayer Officer")

External links

• The Fall of the Empire at IMDb