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Bender. The Beginning (2021)
Directed by Igor Zaytsev
Overview
Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a cunning and unscrupulous swindler, but Bender comes up with an offer Osip cannot refuse. A precious royal relic, a diamond-encrusted golden scepter is hidden somewhere in town; Bender needs a partner on his mission to find it, and offers Osip a share of the profit from selling the treasure. And so begins their joint venture, wrought with comical and dangerous twists and turns, where they have to outsmart and outmaneuver officers of the White Guard as well as the local mafia, who also have their eyes on the scepter. As their quest unfolds, Osip is compelled to learn Bender’s tricks of the trade: charming flattery, delicate deception, soft intimidation… as well as brute force.
Actors
Sergei Bezrukov | Aram Vardevanyan | Nikita Kologrivy | Taisiya Vilkova | Aleksandr Tsekalo | Yuliya Rutberg | Olga Sutulova | Yuri Kolokolnikov | Pavel Derevyanko | Garik Kharlamov | Павел Майков | Artyom Tkachenko | Aleksandr Ilin | Yuliya Makarova | Viktor Tsekalo | Elena Lazareva | Valeriy Li | Mikhail Sakulin | Yuriy Utkin | Andrey Pankov | Dmitriy Penkov | Vera Kryukova | Игорь Ключников | Vladimir Matveev | Oleg Chugunov | Oksana Bazilevich | Mikhail Shelomentsev | Natalya Bochkaryova | Georgiy Shtil | Aleksey Dmitriev | Rihards Lepers | Eduard Orlov | Vera Brezhneva | Aleksandr Petrov | Aleksandr Kakuev | Igor Goldobin | Denis Shlenkov | Aleksandr Lapshov | Garik Ayvazov | Maxim Khanzhov | Vladislav Shkerin | Yuriy Petrov | Vitaliy Shabalovskiy | Vitaly Kopnin | Artem Drachev | Ilya Semyonov | Maksimilian Grigoriyev | Artur Musikhin | Pavel Elpashev | Sergey Danilchuk | Vladimir Lysenko | Egor Kelli | Timofey Okulov | Kristina Kulishenko | Aleksandr Aleynov | Roberto Fleites | Ivan Kaminskiy | Dmitriy Pereponov | Lyudmila Grigorash | Kseniya Patsinskaya | Tatyana Andriyanova | Dmitry Golovanov