The Tsar's soldier

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Movie
German title The Tsar's soldier
Original title Господа офицеры: Спасти императора
Country of production Russia
original language Russian
Publishing year 2008
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Oleg Fomin
production Yuri Obukhov
Alexei Ryazantsev
camera Vasily Sikachinsky
occupation

The Tsar's Soldier ( Russian Господа́ офице́ры: Спасти́ импера́тора / Gospoda Ofizery: Spasti Imperatora ) is a Russian historical action film from 2008.

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In 1918, during the Russian Civil War, the High Command of the White Forces of the government of Siberia, loyal to the Tsar , learned that Tsar Nicholas II and his family were being held captive by the Red Guards in Yekaterinburg . Since the whites are militarily incapable of leading a major attack to rescue the fallen monarch, they decide to send a secret command led by Staff Captain Davidov to Yekaterinburg.

The number of participating officers grows to nine, while by a traitorous general among whites still in the preparation phase Cheka of the plan experiences and the rock-hard Commissioner Bejtiks charge of the defense. Subordinate to this is the battle-tested sailor Pankratjew, whom he sends eastward with a troop of Red Army soldiers to intercept the "officers" (that is the original title of the film), which fails bloodily on a ferry. Here the nine officers lose their lieutenant Lyubawin. Meanwhile, Bejtiks happened to find Varya, Dawidow's fiancée, and captured her as a means of exerting pressure on the captain.

In another attempt, the officers and Pancratev are captured by a greedy robber captain who sells them to the Cheka for gold pieces. At the handover, Bejtiks had the "patriotic" shot, but the officers also freed themselves and once again all Red Army soldiers, many robbers and one officer died. During the fight, the Varya brought by the inspector can be freed. Pankratjew, who is threatened with being shot by Bejtiks because of his failure, leaves with the officers and then tries to make his way to Kronstadt on his own . In the meantime, the officers try to fake their own death by blowing up the train captured in the battle. In the process, they lose their explosives expert, who is shot by the advancing Red Army soldiers.

Although doubts about their death remain, they manage to penetrate Yekaterinburg and find accommodation in the house of a tsarist. But since there is also a traitor among them, they are overpowered and captured by Bejtiks. When they are arrested, they learn of the killing of the royal family.

The traitor reconsiders in an intoxication with alcohol and frees her from the cellar prison the next morning. During the escape from Yekaterinburg, however, the group is gradually decimated by their pursuers. Only Chief of Staff Dawidow managed to get to the mine where the corpses of the tsarist family were supposed to be. There it comes to a showdown between Dawidow and Bejtiks, in which Varya intervenes and shoots Bejtiks. However, Bejtiks also shoots Varya. The last surviving officer now returns to headquarters in Omsk (?) As an angel of vengeance and shoots the traitorous general who is about to steal away with the gold under his arm.

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