Bender: The Beginning (2021)

1919 year. Fate confronts the young idealist Osya with the Turkish swindler Ibrahim Bender. And the honest Osya would never have contacted such a shameless and cunning swindler if they had not been united by an incredibly dangerous adventure - a hunt for a royal relic, a precious rod, which local bandits and white officers would also like to get. In a series of dizzying adventures, Osya is forced to learn from Ibrahim charming flattery, delicate deception, captivating blackmail and - brute force. And all this - being in love with the purest girl in the city. And, it seems, into one more - a fatal foreign beauty. This is how the portrait of the legendary great schemer and favorite of women, Ostap Bender-Zadunaisky, begins to take shape.

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Summary Details
Running Time1 hr 36 min
GenresAction Adventure Comedy
FilmmakersRole
Igor Zaytsev Director
Varvara Avdyushko Writer
Nikolai Bulygin Writer
Ilya Ilf Writer
Oleg Malovichko Writer
Yevgeni Petrov Writer
Max Polinsky Writer
Ryan Otter Composer
Yekaterina Beresnevich Editor
Aleksandr Arefev Production Designer
CastRole
Sergey Bezrukov
Ibrahim Suleiman Berta-Maria Bender-bay
Aram Vardevanyan
Ostap Zadunayskiy
Nikita Kologrivyy
Mishka Yaponchik
Taisiya Vilkova
Eva Mahulskaya - swindler