The Red Ghost
2021 Russian film
- Andrey Bogatyrev
- Vyacheslav Shikhaleev
- Pavel Abramenkov
- Tatyana Voronetskaya
- Andrey Bogatyrev
- Konstantin Elkin
- Oleg Tumanov
- Elvira Dmitrievskaya
- Yelena Belova
- Alexey Petrukhin (ru)
- Aleksey Shevchenkov
- Vladimir Gostyukhin
- Yura Borisov
- Polina Chernyshova
- Wolfgang Cerny
- Mikhail Gorevoy
- Andrey Bogatyrev
- Yuliya Lyubomirova
Production
companies
companies
- ABS Film Company
- Movie Art Factory
- Russian World Vision
- Khleb Film Company
- Russian Film Group
Release date
- 10 June 2021 (2021-06-10) (Russia)
Running time
The Red Ghost (Russian: Красный призрак, romanized: Krasniy prizrak) is a 2021 Russian horror war thriller film directed by Andrey Bogatyrev. 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.[6] 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.[7]
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.[7]
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
- ^ "Военный триллер "Красный призрак", снятый в Мосальском районе, вышел в прокат". GTRK Kaluga.
- ^ a b "Interview with Wolfgang Cerny". Indie Cinema Magazine.
External links
- The Red Ghost at IMDb
