The Red Ghost

The Red Ghost
The Red Ghost
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrei Bogatyryov (ru)
Written by	Andrei Bogatyryov; Vyacheslav Shikhaleyev; Pavel Abramenkov;
Produced by	Tatyana Voronetskaya; Andrei Bogatyryov; Konstantin Elkin; Oleg Tumanov; Elvira Dmitrievskaya; Yelena Belova; Alexey Petrukhin (ru);
Starring	Aleksey Shevchenkov; Vladimir Gostyukhin; Yura Borisov; Polina Chernyshova; Wolfgang Cerny; Mikhail Gorevoy;
Cinematography	Nikita Rozhdestvensky
Edited by	Andrei Bogatyryov; Yuliya Lyubomirova;
Music by	Sergey Solovyov
Production; companies	ABS Filmcompany; Russian World Vision; MovieArtFactory Filmcompany;
Distributed by	KaroProkat (English: CaroRental)
Release date	June 10, 2021 (Russia);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Box office	₽16 million

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 June 10, 2021 by KaroProkat (CaroRental in English).^[4]

Plot[]

December 30, 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

External links[]

The Red Ghost at IMDb

[1] Box Office, Russian Cinema Fund`s Analytics (RCFA)

[2] Shagelman, Yulia (June 8, 2021). "Дранг нах вестерн" [Drang nah western]. Kommersant (in Russian). Retrieved June 17, 2021.

[3] «Красный призрак»: чуть большее, чем просто «комикс»

[4] «Красный призрак» вышел на экраны

[5] Красный призрак

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