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Directed by | Andrey Bogatyrev ( ru) |
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Cinematography | Nikita Rozhdestvensky |
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Music by | Sergey Solovyev |
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Distributed by | KaroProkat (English: KaroRental) |
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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 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]
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]
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]