Red Silk is a 2025 Russian-Chinese retro-mystery film directed by Andrey Volgin, the action-packed detective story is based on real historical events.
The detective also stars Miloš Biković, Gleb Kalyuzhny, Zheng Hanyi, and Yelena Podkaminskaya, alongside Gosha Kutsenko, Svetlana Chuikina, Yaroslav Mogilnikov, Zhargal Badmatsyrenov, Irina Alfyorova, and Dmitry Kulichkov, with the Chinese side are represented by Huang Haonan, Yang Zihua, and Zheng Long. Principal photography began in February 2024 in the Lake Baikal area.
Red Silk premiered at the Karo 11 October in Moscow on February 18, 2025, and was theatrically released in Russia on February 20, by National Media Group Film Distribution.
The film takes place in 1927 on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Couriers of the Chinese Communist Party are carrying top secret documents across Russia that could determine the future of the Soviet Union and China relations.
The couriers, having illegally crossed the Soviet-Chinese border near Blagoveshchensk, board the Trans-Siberian Express "Vladivostok-Moscow" in Belogorsk. But it is on the "best train in the country" that the main danger awaits them - here, under the guise of ordinary passengers, both Kuomintang agents and foreign intelligence officers are hiding. In addition, the train is pursued by Honghuzi - greedy cutthroats hired by someone, ready to do anything for the most valuable documents.
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