December 30, 1941. Vyazma ('Vyazemsky cauldron') is a small detachment of Soviet soldiers, by fatal coincidence, in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. However, none of them think about giving up. Each of them was ready to sacrifice his life in order to protect his native land. None of these brave people was born a hero. The myth of the red ghost is a heroic deed without a soldier's Soviet soldier in the Great Patriotic War who instilled in the animals, deadly fear of German soldiers. In place of one of the dead hero was inserted another, and the born myth of the invincible Soviet soldier. The film 'Red Ghost' is about the hope that each soldier will have.
Practical Effects
Brutal winter combat with minimal CGI—freezing actors, real suffering.
Writing
The 'ghost' concept: one soldier becomes many, myth devours truth.
Director
Andrey Bogatyrev
Aleksei Shevchenkov
«Red ghost»
Vladimir Gostyukhin
«Ded»
Yura Borisov
«Prostachyok»
Polina Chernyshova
Vera
Wolfgang Cerny
Braun
Mikhail Gorevoy
Comic actor
Olga Stashkevich
Krasnoarmeyka
Pavel Abramenkov
«Moryachyok»
Vyacheslav Shikhaleev
Politruk
Oleg Vasilkov
Commander
Paul Orlyanskiy
Klein
Oleg Klenov
Koch
Andrey Myasnikov
Schmidt - non-commissioned officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during renewed Russian WWII mythologizing, the film slyly critiques the very hero-worship it appears to celebrate—director Bogatyrev has called it 'an anti-war film in war film clothing.'
The 'Red Ghost' was a real Wehrmacht nickname for mysterious Soviet partisans; Bogatyrev turns fascist fear into Soviet self-critique by making the ghost literally replaceable.
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