The Red Ghost
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| Directed by | Andrey Bogatyrev |
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| Cinematography | Nikita Rozhdestvensky |
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| Music by | Sergey Solovyev |
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| Distributed by | KaroProkat (English: KaroRental) |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Box office | ₽16 million[1] |
The Red Ghost (Russian: Красный призрак, romanized: Krasniy prizrak) is a 2020 Russian war thriller film directed by Andrey Bogatyrev. In 1941, a detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a lone-wolf fighter called the "Red Ghost", come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.[2][3]
It was theatrically released in Russia on 10 June 2021 by KaroProkat (KaroRental in English), after first being released on 3 October 2020 at the Moscow International Film Festival[4][5]
Plot
[edit]Late 1941: Leaving the encirclement in the area of the city of Vyazma ("Vyazemsky cauldron") is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht.[6]
Cast
[edit]- Aleksey Shevchenkov as The Red Ghost
- Vladimir Gostyukhin as Grandfather
- Yura Borisov as the Simpleton
- Polina Chernyshova as Vera
- Wolfgang Cerny as Braun
- Mikhail Gorevoy as a comic actor
- Olga Stashkevich as a Red Army woman
- Pavel Abramenkov as a sailor
- Oleg Vasilkov as squad commander
- Yuri Maslak as non-commissioned officer Otto
Production
[edit]The filming process took place in a severe frost in the winter of 2017-2018 in one of the deserted settlements of the Mosalsky District.[7] The scenery for the film was created a year before the start of official filming, but due to inappropriate weather conditions, the work of the film crew had to be postponed for nine months.[8]
Actor Wolfgang Cerny initially was offered a small role of a Nazi in the film, but he found it boring and one-dimensional and the character ended up being completely rewritten, with Braun becoming a super-soldier who is into tactics and is determined to be the best possible soldier.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)
- ↑ Shagelman, Yulia (June 8, 2021). "Дранг нах вестерн" [Drang nah western]. Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved June 17, 2021.
- ↑ «Красный призрак»: чуть большее, чем просто «комикс»
- ↑ «Красный призрак» вышел на экраны
- ↑ Release date of Red Ghost
- ↑ Красный призрак
- ↑ "Военный триллер "Красный призрак", снятый в Мосальском районе, вышел в прокат". GTRK Kaluga.
- 1 2 "Interview with Wolfgang Cerny". Indie Cinema Magazine.
External links
[edit]- 2020 films
- 2020s action war films
- 2020 war films
- 2020s Christmas horror films
- 2020 Russian films
- 2020 Russian-language films
- Russian action war films
- Russian action thriller films
- Russian war epic films
- Horror war films
- Christmas war films
- Russian World War II films
- Films set in the Soviet Union
- Anti-war films about World War II
- 2020 thriller films
- Ostern films
- Russian-language action war films