Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society, frequently called upon to wield a pistol as a surrogate in duels at dawn. But when Yakovlev meets the naïve young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto undetected emotions. What transpires uncovers a series of revelations about his past and his present self.
The Duelist has generally received positive reviews.
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The Duelist was released in 2016 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 11 reviews, giving The Duelist (2016) an average rating of 63%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 58%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 50%.
With a score of 63%, The Duelist is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2016, which stands at 59%.
Other movies from 2016 with similar scores include films like X-Men: Apocalypse, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and Trolls.
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