| The Red Ghost | |
| Director: | Andrey Bogatyrev (ru) |
| Music: | Sergey Solovyev |
| Cinematography: | Nikita Rozhdestvensky |
| Distributor: | KaroProkat (English: KaroRental) |
| Runtime: | 96 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
| Gross: | 16 million[1] |
The Red Ghost (Russian: Красный призрак|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]
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]