
Bodyguard(2018)
A troubled war veteran is assigned to protect a controversial politician who may be the target of a terror plot.


The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.

Georgiy Drozd
Jordan Lyman - President of the US

Rostislav Yankovsky
James Mattoon Scott - US air force general

Aleksandr Filippenko
Martin «Jiggs» Casey - colonel in the US armed forces

Ada Rohovtseva
Esther Townsend - secretary to the President

Mikhail Danilov
Ray Clark - senator
Stanislav Korenev
Christopher Todd - secretary of the treasury

Igor Kashintsev
Fred Prentice - senator
Vladimir Dunaev
Narrator
The Ultimate Reason for Kings is a war & politics, mystery series that first aired in 1986 exploring themes of based on novel or book, senator, minister, conspiracy, secretary, army colonel. Created by Viktor Kisin, it stars Georgiy Drozd, Rostislav Yankovsky, Aleksandr Filippenko. The plot centers on a large-scale conspiracy by a group of US military personnel, led by General James Scott, against the current President Jordan Lyman. Further events show that the President, who sent his closest aides and friends to investigate, easily and almost indifferently accepts the news of their deaths, because he is only interested in his own person.
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