The Secret Service Agent's Memories
The Secret Service Agent's Memories (Russian: Записки экспедитора Тайной канцелярии, romanized: Zapiski ekspeditora Taynoy kantselyarii) is a Russian historical television film series based on the novel by Oleg Ryaskov, who is also the director.
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Written by | Oleg Ryaskov |
Directed by | Oleg Ryaskov |
Starring | Sergey Chonishvili Anna Snatkina Pyotr Krasilov Ilya Sokolovsky Andrei Ryklin Darya Melnikova |
Music by | Edgar Arens |
Original language(s) | Russian English |
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Producer(s) | Yekaterina Yefanova Oleg Ryaskov |
Running time | 293 minutes |
Distributor | Central Partnership BFT MOVIE |
Budget | US$5,000,000 |
Release | |
Original release | 2011 |
Plot
A messenger of the Order of Masons arrives to Prince Menshikov with a plan to marry the heir to the throne with the daughter of a gray cardinal. At the same time, the prince is visited by a young officer Samoilov. He receives the task, which, having shown ingenuity and courage, performs brilliantly. After that, the head of the Secret Chancellery Ushakov draws attention to the resourceful officer and, thanks to a deft intrigue, forces him to enter the service of his department. Now Ivan is waiting for dizzying adventures, hunting for a serial killer, investigating the death of an elderly nobleman in a house of tolerance, trying to figure out the intrigues of the ancestor of evil, etc.
Cast
- Sergey Chonishvili as Ushakov, head of Secret Chancellery
- Anna Snatkina as Anastasia Vorontsova
- Pyotr Krasilov as Semyon Plakhov
- Ilya Sokolovsky as Ivan Samoilov
- Mikhail Politseimako as Henry Anroville
- Maksim Dakhnenko as Van Hoover
- Andrei Ryklin as Prince Menshikov
- Aleksandr Tereshko as Joe Bucket, Captain of the Pirates
- Darya Melnikova as Fyokla
- Yekaterina Yudina as Ann Bonnie
- Sergey Serov as Duke Belozerov
- Elena Burlakova as Varvara Belozerova
- Olga Ajaja as Sofia Belozerova
- Aleksandr Starikov as Prince Tolstoi
- Yevgeny Radko as La Shanieau
- Anna Nosatova as Mary
- Andrei Bolsunov as French Ambassador
- Boris Kamorzin as Duke Firsanov
- Marina Mogilevskaya as Duchess Firsanova
- Alevtina Dobrynina as Madame Sophie
- Yuri Vasiliev as English Ambassador
- Roman Macedonsky as Peter II
- Yekaterina Rednikova as Maria Karlovna
- Yuriy Nazarov as Yakov Petrovich
- Vladimir Nikitin as Count Orlov
- Anna Starshenbaum as Kat
The scenery
For season 2 was built on the scenery of the city 18th century.
Team
- Producers: Oleg Ryaskov, Ekaterina Efanova
- Executive producers: Nikolay Surov
- Director and screenplay: Oleg Ryaskov
- Assistant director: Natalia Maslova
- Director of photography: Anton Kostromin
- Costume degsine: Yulia Labutina, Tatiana Ageeva
- Art Director: Yuri Karasik
- Painter decorator: Michael Zakharov
- Project sets: Alexander Sorokin
- Director of fencing: Andrey Ryklin
- The stunt Director: Andrey Parshin
- Composer: Edgar Arens
- Supervisor of visual effects: Alexander Kuzmin
- Line producers: Alexander Kopenkin, Victor Nikolaev
Other titles of the series
- Pakt des Bösen — Der Agent des Zaren[1]
- Pakt des Bösen 2 — Die Rückkehr[2]
- The secret service agent’s memories[3]
- Memoirs of a Secret Agent (Europe)
- Нотатки експедитора Таємної канцелярії (Ukraine)
- ยอดสายลับประจัญบาน ปี (Thailand)
- Pastabos transportavimo Secret kanceliarijos (Lithuania)