Spy (2012 Russian film)
Spy (Russian: Шпион, romanized: Shpion) is a 2012 Russian spy film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's novel The Spy Novel (Шпионский роман). It was directed by Alexey Andrianov, and starred Danila Kozlovsky and Fyodor Bondarchuk. Akunin adapted his own novel. It had one of the largest film budgets in Russian history.
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| Directed by | Alexey Andrianov[1] |
| Produced by | Leonid Vereshchagin Sergey Shumakov |
| Written by | Boris Akunin Vladimir Valutskiy |
| Starring | Danila Kozlovsky Fyodor Bondarchuk Vladimir Epifantsev Viktor Verzhbitsky Dmitry Nazarov |
| Music by | Yuri Poteyenko |
| Cinematography | Denis Alarcon-Ramirez |
Production company | Studio TriTe Telekanal Rossiya |
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Running time | 100 minutes[3] |
| Country | Russia |
| Budget | RUB 192 million[4] |
| Box office | RUB 274.2 million[5] |
Plot
The movie is set in the year 1941, months before the German invasion of Russia. The two protagonists, NKVD officers Dorin and Oktyabrsky, are hunting a German Abwehr spy in Moscow. They believe their success might reveal Hitler's plans and the exact date of invasion.[1]
It is implied that Dorin is a distant relative of Erast Fandorin, the most popular character of Akunin's books.
Cast
- Danila Kozlovsky — Yegor Dorin
- Fyodor Bondarchuk — October - Senior Major of State Security
- Sergei Gazarov — People's Commissar
- Vladimir Epifantsev — senior lieutenant of the Kogan state security
- Viktoriya Tolstoganova — Iraida Petrakovich
- Anna Chipovskaya — Nadya
- Andrey Merzlikin — Karpenko
- Viktor Verzhbitsky — Lezhava, a member of the NKVD
- Ekaterina Melnik — Lyubov Serova
- Dmitry Nazarov — father of Nadya
- Mikhail Filippov — Leader
- Oleksiy Gorbunov — Selentsov, Vasser's Connector
- Boris Kamorzin — Lyalin, chauffeur of the NKVD
- Alexander Kuznetsov — NKVD officer
- Eckie Hoffman — Adolf Hitler
- Edgar Bölke — Admiral Wilhelm Canaris
- Felix Schultess — driver of Admiral Wilhelm Canaris
- Maxim Maltsev
Reception
The movie was a moderate success at the box office grossing $4,588,176(258,479,483 руб) against a budget of 192 000 000 руб.[6]