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Director Oleg Fomin's period thriller Gospoda Ofitsery: Spasti Imperatora unfurls at the turn of the 20th century, coincident with the Russian Revolution. As Civil War rips Russia into two halves - a Red Army, fronted by Communist revolutionaries, and a White Army, fronted by counterrevolutionaries - Tsar Nicholas II falls into the hands of ruthless Bolsheviks, and the White Guard army (many of its officers fully supportive of monarchial restoration) launches a coordinated attempt to rescue him, despite an encroaching Red Army cadre sent to eliminate them. In time, it all boils down to one politically-inclined army against another, though the question lingers, in the background, of whether the White Army will manage to reach Nicholas before the Bolsheviks bring his life to a sudden and tragic end.