The Red Ghost

The Red Ghost
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrey 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	Aleksey Shevchenkov Vladimir Gostyukhin Yura Borisov Polina Chernyshova Wolfgang Cerny Mikhail Gorevoy
Cinematography	Nikita Rozhdestvensky
Edited by	Andrey Bogatyrev Yuliya Lyubomirova
Music by	Sergey Solovyev
Production companies	ABS Film Company Movie Art Factory Russian World Vision Khleb Film Company Russian Film Group
Distributed by	KaroProkat (English: KaroRental)
Release date	10 June 2021 (2021-06-10) (Russia)
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 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

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

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. "Interview with Wolfgang Cerny". Indie Cinema Magazine.

External links

• The Red Ghost at IMDb