The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit)

The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) Film poster Country Russia Bulgaria Directed by Dzhanik Fayziev Release Date 2005 Language Russian Turkish French Bulgarian English Romanian Studio Studio Trite Main Cast Character Actor Erast Petrovich Fandorin Egor Beroev Varvara Suvorova Olga Krasko Lukan Viktor Verzhbitskiy Gen. Sobolev Aleksandr Baluev Kazanzaki Aleksey Guskov

The Turkish Gambit (Russian: Турецкий гамбит; Turetskiy gambit) is a 2005 Russian/ Bulgarian war triller/detective, based on the novel of Boris Akunin. Famous Russian detective Erast Petrovich Fandorin tries to expose enemy spy during the Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878. The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit) is the second film about the adventures of Erast Fandorin. It was preceded by Azazel (2002) and followed The State Counsellor (2005). In all three movies Fandorin is played by different actors.

PS1: Near all firearms in this film heavy anachronistic.

PS2 This article contain heaviest spoilers, so, if you still don't watch this movie, DON'T READ IT!!!

WARNING! WARNING! THIS PAGE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!!!

The following weapons were used in the film The Turkish Gambit (Turetskiy gambit):

Revolvers

Webley .455 Mk VI

Anwar-Efendi/captain Perepyolkin (Aleksandr Lykov) uses Webley .455 Mk VI throghout the movie. Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Egor Beroev) briefly holds the similar revolver at the one moment.

Webley Mk. VI - .455 Webley

Close up of the revolver.

Another close up.

Erast Petrovich fires his weblry. The shot was blured due the moving.

ZKR 551

Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Egor Beroev) fires ZKR 551 revolver during the firefight in the mountains. Zurov (Dmitriy Pevtsov) briefly holds during the training, and, later, during the prepairing for duel, when he hands it to secondants - D'Hevrais (Didier Bienaimé) and McLaughlin (Daniel Olbrychski). Anwar-Efendi/captain Perepyolkin (Aleksandr Lykov) uses the ZKR 551 throughot the movie (Standing on a similar Colt SAA).

CZ ZKR 551 sporting revolver

Erast Fandorin fires his revolver.

Zurov fires his revolver

Perepyolkin holds his ZKR 551.

Perepyolkin fires

Perepyolkin takes Varvara Suvorova hostages.

Perepyolkin fires his revolver.

Gasser M1880 Montenegrin

D'Hevrais (Didier Bienaimé) owns the Gasser M1880 Montenegrin revolver. Varvara Suvorova (Olga Krasko) tries to shot it one time.

Gasser Montenegrin M1880 - 11.75 x 36mm Gasser

Smith & Wesson No.3 Russian Model

Lukan (Viktor Verzhbitskiy) uses Smith & Wesson No.3 Russian Model revolver several times. Anwar-Efendi/captain Perepyolkin (Aleksandr Lykov) uses S&W to hurt himself.

Smith & Wesson No.3 Russian Model - .44 Russian

Lukan puts unloaded S & W on the table and grabs Mle.

Two revolvers in the hads of secondants - D'Hevrais (Didier Bienaimé) and McLaughlin (Daniel Olbrychski), before Zurov (Dmitriy Pevtsov) tooked it from them and gaves it to each other, exchanged it. S&W at the right.

Close view of the cylinder.

Perepyolkin holds his S&W.

Lukan holds another S&W.

Anwar-Efendi hurts himself.

Rast-Gasser M1898

General Sobolev (Aleksandr Baluev) and other Russian officers fires Rast-Gasser M1898 revolvers during the training. Anwar-Efendi/captain Perepyolkin (Aleksandr Lykov) uses Rast-Gasser M1898 revolver to kill Zurov (Dmitriy Pevtsov) and Kazanzaki (Aleksey Guskov). Later he put Gasser to hand of dying Kazanzaki.

Austrian Rast Gasser 1898 - 8 x 27mm Gasser.

General Sobolev fires his revolver.

Russian officers fires their revolvers.

Kazanzaki corps with revolver.

Mle 1892

Several characters, include D'Hevrais (Didier Bienaimé), Lukan (Viktor Verzhbitskiy) and Mitya Gridnev (Marat Basharov) uses the Mle 1892 Revolvers during the training. General Ganetsky (Anatoly Kuznetsov) fires Mle 1892 Revolver during the night scene.

Modèle d’Ordonnance Mle 1892 Revolver - 8x27mm SR

D'Hevrais (Didier Bienaimé) fires at the target.

Mitya Gridnev (Marat Basharov) fires at the same scene

Lukan puts unloaded S & W on the table and grabs Mle.

General Ganetsky fires his Mle.

Pistols

Flobert gun

Varvara Suvorova (Olga Krasko) owns the Flobert gun (known in Russia as Monte Cristo), but all shots of it was blured due twe moving.

Flobert Monte Cristo 6 mm., 1856

Varvara Suvorova fires.

Flintlock Pistol

Several Bashi Bazouks briefly carries Flintlock Pistols. Several Flintlock pistols can be seen in the Turkish bank at the film climax.

Turkish Flintlock Pistol.

Russian M1854 Naval percussion cap pistol

Two Russian M1854 Naval percussion cap pistols can be seen in the Turkish bank at the film climax.

Russian M1854 Naval percussion cap pistol - .71 caliber

Hebel Flare Pistol Model 1894

Ismail-Bei (Gosha Kutsenko) tries to uses Hebel Flare Pistol Model 1894 at the night scene, but Erast Fandorin disarms him. All shot of it were blured.

Hebel Flare Pistol M1894 - 26.5mm

Ismail-Bei draws the gun.

Erast Fandorin dissarms Ismail-Bei.

The pistol is accidentely beeng fired.

Rifles

Martini-Henry

Turkish soldiers uses the Martini-Henry rifles with bayonets many times, but it never seen clear: only in distance or blurred.

Martini-Henry Mk. I (1871-1876) .577-.450 caliber.

Turkish soldiers fires their rifles.

Close up, but blurred.

Winchester Model 1894

Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Egor Beroev) fires Winchester Model 1894 rifle at the film beggining.

Winchester 1894 - .30-30.

Erast Petrovich Fandorin reloads his rifle.

Winchester Model 1866 "Yellow Boy"

Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Egor Beroev) captures Winchester Model 1866 "Yellow Boy" rifle and fires it at the one moment.

Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" Carbine - .44 RF

Good shot.

Berdan Rifle

Many Russian soldiers uses Berdan Rifles. Erast Petrovich Fandorin (Egor Beroev) briefly holds a few of it. For some reasons, it's the only Russian firearm in this movie.

Russian Berdan No.1 (M1868) Infantry rifle - 10.67x58mm R

Erast Fandorin carries rifles.

1895 Chilean Mauser (mocked up as Remington-Keene)

Anwar-Efendi/captain Perepyolkin (Aleksandr Lykov) uses during the firefight in the mountains the 1895 Chilean Mauser, mocked up as a Remington-Keene Repeating Rifle by the front part of the wooden foregrip removed, and a fake tubular magazine mounted instead of him. The exact model is ID by the shape of the bolt shroud, which is the Model 1893 style, but the unique safety lug on the receiver tang behind the bolt handle of the Model 1895 can be clearly distinguished. The presence of a thumb cut in the receiver wall most likely makes this a Serbian Model 1899.

Mauser 1895 Rifle - 7x57mm Mauser

Remington-Keene Repeating Rifle in carbine configuration - for comparision

Close Up. Note the rectangular safety lug projecting up from the receiver tang.

Close Up. Again the Model 1895's safety lug is visible.

Jezail musket

Several Bashi Bazouks briefly carries Jezail muskets.

Ottoman musket