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The Red Ghost
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAndrey Bogatyrev (ru)
Written by
  • Andrey Bogatyrev
  • Vyacheslav Shikhaleev
  • Pavel Abramenkov
Produced by
  • Tatyana Voronetskaya
  • Andrey Bogatyrev
  • Konstantin Elkin
  • Oleg Tumanov
  • Elvira Dmitrievskaya
  • Yelena Belova
  • Alexey Petrukhin (ru)
Starring
CinematographyNikita Rozhdestvensky
Edited by
  • Andrey Bogatyrev
  • Yuliya Lyubomirova
Music bySergey Solovyev
Production
companies
  • ABS Film Company
  • Movie Art Factory
  • Russian World Vision
  • Khleb Film Company
  • Russian Film Group
Distributed byKaroProkat (English: KaroRental)
Release date
  • 10 June 2021 (2021-06-10) (Russia)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Box office₽16 million[1]

The Red Ghost (Russian: Красный призрак, romanizedKrasniy prizrak) is a 2021 Russian horror 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).[4]

Plot

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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

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Production

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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

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  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
  6. ^ "Военный триллер "Красный призрак", снятый в Мосальском районе, вышел в прокат". GTRK Kaluga.
  7. ^ a b "Interview with Wolfgang Cerny". Indie Cinema Magazine.
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