Bender: The Beginning
2021 film directed by Igor Zaytsev
Bender: The Beginning, also known as Ostap Bender. The Beginning (Russian: Бендер: Начало) is a 2021 Russian action adventure comedy film directed by Igor Zaytsev, a prequel to The Twelve Chairs from the production company Sreda.
It stars Sergey Bezrukov as Ibrahim Bender, and Aram Vardevanyan in the role was dedicated to Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky.
It is scheduled to be theatrically released on 24 June 2021.
The film is set in 1919 and shows as the young idealist named Osip runs into the Turkish swindler, Ibrahim Bender, who, like Osip, hunts for a royal relic. Osip learns from Ibrahim flattery, deception, blackmail and brute force, falls in love with a fatal beautiful foreigner and becomes the legendary Ostap Bender.
Plot
The film is set in Russia during the Civil War in 1919. In August of that year, American businessman Armand Hammer arrives in Moscow and meets with Soviet government official Lev Trotsky. Hammer negotiates the sale of a valuable scepter belonging to Count Pyotr Rumyantsev for one million dollars, agreeing to deliver it to the Romanian city of Constanța. Trotsky dispatches the scepter with a courier by train to the town of Solnechnomorsk, where it is to be forwarded to its destination.
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