Red Serpent | |
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Directed by | Gino Tanasescu |
Written by | Drew Fleming Cyndy Kuipers George Lascu |
Produced by | Oleg Kapanets |
Starring | Michael Pare Roy Scheider Oleg Taktarov |
Cinematography | Andrey Zhegalov Andrey Belkanov |
Edited by | Matt Harry |
Music by | Kenneth Burgomaster John Valentino Alexey Belov |
Production companies | Kremlin Films Rex Media |
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Running time | 92 min. |
Countries | Russia Germany |
Languages | Russian English |
Budget | $5 000 000 [1] |
Red Serpent is a 2003 Russian-German action adventure film 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. [1]
Russian film critic Valery Kichin considered the film unspectacular and boring, giving it a rating of 1 out of 10. [3]
BadComedian called the Tanasescu film "stupidity, idiocy and nonsense". [4]
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. [5]