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Directed by | Andrei Bogatyryov (ru) |
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Cinematography | Nikita Rozhdestvensky |
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Music by | Sergey Solovyov |
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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 2021 Russian horror war thriller film directed by Andrei Bogatyryov. In 1941, a detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-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).[4]
Plot
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.[5]
Cast
- 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
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. 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.
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Красный призрак