''The Red Ghost'' (russian: Красный призрак, Krasniy prizrak) is a 2021 Russian
horror war thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre ...
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.
It was theatrically released in Russia on 10 June 2021 by KaroProkat (KaroRental in English).
Plot
30 December 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.
Красный призрак
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Cast
* Aleksey Shevchenkov
Aleksey Vladimirovich Shevchenkov (russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Шевче́нков) is a Russian actor. Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (2006). He appeared in 130 films.
Biography
Aleksey was born on November 2 ...
as The Red Ghost
* Vladimir Gostyukhin
Vladimir Vasilyevich Gostyukhin (russian: Владимир Васильевич Гостюхин, be, Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Гасцю́хін, born 10 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian, Belarusian film and stage actor.
...
as Grandfather
* Yura Borisov
Yuri "Yura" Alexandrovich Borisov (russian: Ю́рий Алекса́ндрович Бори́сов, also '' tr.'' Yuriy Aleksandrovich Borisov; born December 8, 1992) is a Russian actor. Winner of the Golden Eagle Award – 2021. '' GQ'' Russi ...
as the Simpleton
* Polina Chernyshova as Vera
* Wolfgang Cerny
Wolfgang Cerny (born August 31, 1984 in Vienna) is an Austrian actor and producer, best known for his roles in ''Storm of Love'' (2009-2010), ''Sobibor'' (2018) and '' The Red Ghost'' (2021). From 2012 until 2022 he was actively working in Moscow ...
as Braun
* Mikhail Gorevoy
Mikhail Vitalievich Gorevoy (russian: Михаи́л Вита́льевич Горево́й; born 19 May 1965) is a Russian actor, occasionally credited as Michael Gor in English language productions, best known internationally for playing Vlad ...
as a comic actor
* Olga Stashkevich as a Red Army
The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, after ...
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
Mosalsky District (russian: Мосальский райо́н) is an administrativeCharter of Kaluga Oblast and municipalLaw #7-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Kaluga Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the oblast. The ar ...
. 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
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2021 films
2020s action war films
2020s Christmas horror films
2020s Russian-language films
Russian action war films
Russian action thriller films
Russian historical action films
War epic films
Horror war films
Christmas war films
Russian World War II films
Films set in the Soviet Union
Anti-war films about World War II
2021 thriller films