The Red Ghost

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 (Russia);
Running time	96 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian
Box office	₽16 million

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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

[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.

[indie-wolf-7] "Interview with Wolfgang Cerny". Indie Cinema Magazine.

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