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"They say he sent 100 Krauts to meet their maker." Dark Sky Films has released an official US trailer for the Russian WWII action thriller Red Ghost: Nazi Hunter, formerly known as simply The Red Ghost. This opened in Russia last year and is hitting VOD in the US soon. December 30, 1941. In Vyazma a small group of Soviet soldiers are trying to return to their comrades. They are suddenly caught in an unequal battle with a special unit of the Wehrmacht. None of these brave soldiers was born a hero but they became heroes. And were helped in their battle by the Red Ghost. The myth of the "Red Ghost" is about a lone hero who picks off Nazi soldiers one by one. He seems to be able to vanish almost magically into the forests and even to come back from the dead. Starring Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yuriy Borisov, Polina Chernyshyova,...

Covid has played havoc with production schedules across the globe, and for the first major Russian movie to shoot on location in Europe since the pandemic struck last year, it’s been a case study in compromise and adaptation.

Restrictions on crew movements, the director’s Covid infection and a delay by local authorities in granting permission to shoot on location in Germany have combined to push the schedule of the €10 million ($11.8 million) historical drama “Nuremberg” back by a year.

The film — an international co-production with Russia, the Czech Republic, Germany and the U.K. — incorporated Covid safety protocols in order to shoot on location near Prague, which is buzzing with productions right now. But ambitious plans to shoot in the actual prison that housed top Nazis during the post-wwii Nuremberg trials in 1946 have been put on hold after local authorities deemed the idea too risky as Covid cases rose in Germany.

Row 19 is an upcoming, high flying thriller. Shot in Russia, this title involves a terrible storm on a one-way flight. On the flight, a female doctor and her six year old daughter experience a strange situation as an entity kills passengers one-by-one. The film's concept poster and short teaser are available here. As well, director Alexander Babaev (Bornless Ones) has developed this title, with James Rabb (Ark) acting as scriptwriter. Hosting a mostly Russian cast, the actors consist of: Svetlana Ivanova (The Blackout), Viktoriya Korlyakova (Live Bomb), Wolfgang Cerny and many others. This dangerous thriller is expected to release in 2020 (Russia) and other territories in 2021. The Central Partnership Sales House will be handling international distribution. There are no official release dates for North America, but this could change, later in the year. For now, a preview for Row 19 is available here. Release Date: 2021 Director: Alexander Babaev. Writer: James Rabb. Cast: Svetlana.

"We'll never forgive them again." Samuel Goldwyn Films has debuted an official trailer for the true story World War II survival thriller Sobibor, about the revolt and escape at the concentration camp known as Sobibór in Poland. The story goes that, after only three weeks imprisoned at this Nazi death camp in Poland in 1943, Soviet Officer Alexander Pechersky organized a mass revolt and prison break, successfully escaping and helping many of the other prisoners escape as well. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - but the rest, led by Pechersky, eventually joined the resistance. The film stars Konstantin Khabenskiy as Pechersky, who is also making his directorial debut on this film, with a full cast including Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska, Philippe Reinhardt, Maximilian Dirr, Mindaugas Papinigis, and Wolfgang Cerny. This seems to be yet another intense WWII concentration camp film, but with some hope considering...