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During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.


“The snow will be painted red with Nazi blood.”
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.

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
Red Ghost is a war, drama, history film released in 2021 exploring themes of partisan, war against fascism. Directed by Andrey Bogatyrev, it stars Aleksei Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yura Borisov. 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.
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