The red conspiracy

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Movie
German title The red conspiracy
Original title Archangel
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English , Russian
Publishing year 2005
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jon Jones
script Dick Clement ,
Ian La Frenais
production Christopher Hall
music Robert Lane
camera Chris Seager
cut Sue Wyatt
occupation

The red conspiracy (original title: Archangel ) is a 2005 produced thriller by Jon Jones, which was first broadcast as a two-part television film on March 19 and 20, 2005 on BBC One . It is a film adaptation of the novel Aurora by Robert Harris . The filming locations of the thriller were Moscow and Riga .

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Fluke Kelso, a British historian, attends a conference in Moscow. Papu Rapava, a former Kremlin - Guard , addresses him and says he knows where the secret records of Stalin were hidden. These records could change known history. Before Kelso can find out more, the man from Kelso's hotel room disappears back into the streets of Moscow.

Rapava is found murdered a little later in his own apartment. His daughter Zinaida, a student working as a prostitute , and Kelso find the records in hiding. It is a diary of a girl who worked as a servant for Stalin.

Kelso, Zinaida and the journalist O'Brian, who is hoping for a sensation, go to Arkhangelsk, where the girl came from. They discover that the young woman had a child from Stalin; she was killed shortly after the child was born. Kelso and the journalist find Stalin's now grown-up son, who is later picked up by helicopter.

However, when the “new Stalin” appears in public for the first time, he is shot by Zinaida, who wants to avenge her father's murder.

Reviews

Brian Gallagher wrote on Movieweb that the thriller has something for everyone: The game by Craig, a mysterious story, lively dialogues, some action and romance.

Differences from the novel

  • O'Brian is killed in the film by a soldier from a Russian special forces unit, while in the novel he survives.
  • In the film, Kelso escapes the Russian soldiers by means of a boat. In the novel, however, he is accompanied by O'Brian and Stalin's son.
  • In the film, Stalin's son is picked up by the Russians by helicopter. In the novel, he is with the escape from the soldiers but is left behind in Arkhangelsk by Kelso and O'Brian.
  • Since the novel was published in 1998, the plot still took place in the Yeltsin period . The film is set in Putin's reign .
  • In the book it remains open whether Zinaida shoots Stalin's son or the wire-pulling ex-KGB man Mamantov, who murdered her father.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Red Conspiracy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 745 DVD).
  2. ↑ http://www.movieweb.com/dvd/release/32/111332/review1924.php