| Director: | Gino Tanasescu |
| Producer: | Oleg Kapanets |
| Starring: | Michael Pare Roy Scheider Oleg Taktarov |
| Music: | Kenneth Burgomaster John Valentino Alexey Belov |
| Cinematography: | Andrey Zhegalov Andrey Belkanov |
| Editing: | Matt Harry |
| Studio: | Kremlin Films Rex Media |
| Runtime: | 92 min. |
| Country: | Russia Germany |
| Language: | Russian English |
| Budget: | $5 000 000[1] |
Red Serpent is a 2003 Russian-German crime thriller directed by Gino Tanasescu.
Steve Nichols comes to Moscow to conclude a contract. Unbeknownst to Steve, he has to become a front for transporting drugs supplied by a local gangster nicknamed Red Serpent. And his personal consent is just a technical matter.
The only hope for the trapped businessman is the former KGB officer Sergei Popov, who has old scores with the Serpent.[2]
Russian film critic Valery Kichin considered the film unspectacular and boring, giving it a rating of 1 out of 10.[4]
BadComedian called the Tanasescu film "stupidity, idiocy and nonsense".[5]
Reviewer Andrey Volkov (Postcriticism.ru) named only the performance of some actors as a plus, but in general he described the film as far from professional cinema.[6]