Synopsis
Chinese Tea-Set (2000) is a Russian caper comedy you can watch online on iFILM. The year is 1913, and the steamer St. Nikolai carries well-heeled guests up the Volga toward the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty. Vitaly Moskalenko directs.
On board, and across the rich towns along the river, a ring of card sharps is busy at work. Passing themselves off as respectable gentry, the con men clean out industrialists and merchants and keep slipping past the gendarmes. Detective Arseny Myshko sets out to crack the scheme — and it would all have gone smoothly if a celebrated opera singer, Zinaida Voloshina, hadn't been tangled up in it.
The real draw is the cast: Oleg Yankovsky, Anna Samokhina, Sergey Nikonenko, Vladimir Menshov and Sergey Bezrukov. Expect pre-revolutionary glamour, stacked decks, disguises and a romance running underneath. A good pick when you'd rather have charming crooks than bloodshed. Stream Chinese Tea-Set (2000) online on iFILM.
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