The Duelist
2016 · Movie · R · 110 min · ★ 6.2 · 49% critics
After a long exile, a former army officer returns to Saint Petersburg and earns money by fighting duels on behalf of others. As he moves through high society and takes on deadly dawn encounters, unexpected feelings begin to challenge his cold, professional life.
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Details
- Original title
- Дуэлянт
- Years
- 2016
- Release date
- 2016-09-29
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Critic score
- 49/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (101 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy moody period action and honor-bound conflicts in the vein of Centurion or Jane Got a Gun; Not for you if constant duels, bleak atmosphere, and brooding antiheroes wear you out.
Pros: stylish period setting; tense duel scenes; intriguing lead | Cons: grim tone; violent throughout; familiar revenge beats
Themes
- fight
- revenge
- 19th century
Awards & recognition
- Nika Award — Best Costume Design · 2017
Cast & crew
Pyotr Fyodorov
as Yakovlev
Vladimir Mashkov
as Earl Beklemishev
Franziska Petri
as Aleksandra Iosifovna
Martin Wuttke
as German Baron
Sergey Garmash
as One-armed nobleman
Yuri Kolokolnikov
as Basargin
Aleksandr Yatsenko
as Yakovlev Jr.
Yuriy Kuznetsov
as Servant
Anton Kuznetsov
as merchant, gunsmith
Dmitriy Kulichkov
as Chichagov
Directed by Aleksei Mizgiryov