''China Tea Set'' () is a 1999 Russian comedy film directed by
Vitaly Moskalenko.
Plot
The film takes place in 1913 on a ship leaving the
Volga
The Volga (, ) is the longest river in Europe and the longest endorheic basin river in the world. Situated in Russia, it flows through Central Russia to Southern Russia and into the Caspian Sea. The Volga has a length of , and a catchment ...
from
Tsaritsyn
Volgograd,. formerly Tsaritsyn. (1589–1925) and Stalingrad. (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga, covering an area of , with a population ...
to
Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət, t=Lower Newtown; colloquially shortened to Nizhny) is a city and the administrative centre of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast an ...
to celebrate the
300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty
The Romanov Tercentenary () was a country-wide celebration, marked in the Russian Empire from February 1913, in celebration of the ruling House of Romanov. After a grand display of wealth and power in St. Petersburg, and a week of receptions at ...
. Suddenly it became known that
con men
A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibili ...
plan to beat a rich merchant Frol Satanovsky at poker game....
Cast
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Oleg Yankovsky
Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (; 23 February 1944 – 20 May 2009) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russian actor who excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with , the last person to be nam ...
as Count Stroganov
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Sergey Bezrukov
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...
as Kolya Sidikhin
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Anna Samokhina as Zinaida Voloshina (singing
Evgenia Smolyaninova)
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as Merchant Satanovsky
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Sergey Nikonenko
Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, a film director and a screenwriter. He was awarded with People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991).
He performed in more than eighty films since 1961.
Selected ...
as Arseni Myshko
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Bogdan Stupka as Lapsin
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Sergey Gabrielyan as Staff Captain Panteleimon Sumatokhin
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Irina Bezrukova as Countess (as Irina Livanova)
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Maksim Lagashkin
Maxim (more accurately spelled Maksim assuming that "X" is not a consonant, but the conjunction of "K" and "S" sounds; “Maksym”, or "Maxym") is an epicene (or gender-neutral) first name of Roman origin mainly given to males. It is adopted in ...
as Waiter
*
Andrei Davydov as General
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* Yuriy Dumchev
Yuriy Eduardovich Dumchev (; 5 August 1958 – 10 February 2016) was a Russian track and field athlete for the Soviet Union, who set the world record in the men's discus throw on 29 May 1983 with a distance of 71.86 metres. He was born in Rossosh. ...
as Efrem
* Evgeniya Dmitrieva
Evgeniya Olegovna Dmitrieva (; born 1972) is a Russian actress. She appeared in over 140 films.
Biography
Evgeniya Dmitrieva was born on December 19, 1972, in Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Ru ...
as Elzhbeta Yanovna Kvyatkovskaya
Notes
References
External links
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1999 films
1999 comedy films
1990s Russian films
1990s Russian-language films
Russian-language comedy films
Russian comedy films
Films set in 1913
Films set in Nizhny Novgorod
Films set in the Russian Empire
Films shot in Nizhny Novgorod
Mosfilm films
Films about con artists
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