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Red Penguins

2019

Gabe Polsky

2019·PG-13·United StatesUnited StatesGermanyGermany
Award tierBronze
Metascore

Red Penguins tells a story of capitalism and opportunism run amok - complete with gangsters, strippers and live bears serving beer on a hockey rink in Moscow. Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the famed Red Army hockey team formed a joint-venture that showed anything was possible in the new Russia. Eccentric marketing whiz, Steve Warshaw, is sent to Russia and tasked to transform team into the greatest show in Moscow. He takes the viewer on a bizarre journey highlighting a pivotal moment in U.S. Russian relations in a lawless era when oligarchs made their fortunes and multiple murders went unsolved.

Cast

Howard Baldwin

Producers

Eric Friedler·Madison Horton·Scott Jay Kaplan·Vladislav Ketkovich·Anthony Melillo III

Languages

United KingdomEnglishRussiaRussian

Major Awards

0 wins · 1 nomination

Nominations (1)

Best Screenplay

Writers Guild of America, USA (2021)

Documentary Screenplay

Gabe Polsky