Azazel (film)

Azazel 2002 Russian is a Russian made for TV adaptation of Boris Akunins introductory Erast Fandorin novel The Winter Queen.

The hero is a young man, newly enlisted in the police force of the 1870s. This is a world with no forensic science, a rigid social structure and rigid proprieties, and police investigation techniques which respect the intuition of the intelligent amateur or newcomer. Fandorin is inexperienced, naive, downwardly mobile the family fortune having evaporated, but cultured, intelligent, diligent, and desperately enthusiastic. He doesnt so much want to impress as want to succeed ... by a process of blind selfconfidence and a youthful selfdelusion that he is acting logically and scientifically. Fandorin is invited to investigate the suicide of a rich student. The young man has shot himself in public, but something seems strange about the suicide. Fandorin quickly exposes the murderous intrigue which has led to the death ... and opens up a can of worms which will have him crossing Europe in search of a mastermind ... or maybe even the godfathers behind a terrorist plot.Dutch film director Paul Verhoeven was set to film an Englishlanguage theatrical film remake of Azazel, titled The Winter Queen, with Dan Stevens set to star as Fandorin and the leading female role to be played by Milla Jovovich. This movie was cancelled. ........

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