The Red Arrow
1987, Russian. Directed by Iskander Khamrayev & Igor Sheshukov.
The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Valeriy Kropotov is CEO of a big industrial company in Leningrad who is crafty and successful in getting a major order from the Soviet Government: building an automated assembly line. But his style of management clashes with his subordinates, talented engineers. Their potential is strangled by Kropotov's manipulative control. The government order is not accomplished and Kropotov gets fired. He is rethinking his outdated business style while on the train No.1 to Moscow.
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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Cast & crew
- Iskander KhamrayevDirector
- Igor SheshukovDirector
- Kirill LavrovCEO Valeri Petrovich Kropotov
- Elena PrudnikovaValya
- Andrey SmirnovKarandin
- Osvalds BērziņšValdis
- Vladimir EryominSavitsky
- Lyudmila ArininaNatalia
- Galina FiglovskayaGolubeva
- Zoya BogomolovaAlexandra
- Mariya LavrovaMasha
- Vadim YakovlevAntonov
- Artyom KarapetyanVazgen
- Petr ShelokhonovYusov
Details
- Released
- 25 March 1987
- Original title
- Красная стрела
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Aleksandr Ozhegov, Edgar Dubrovsky
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The Red Arrow runs 92 minutes (1h 32m).
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The Red Arrow isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 25 March 1987. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Red Arrow?
The Red Arrow (1987) was directed by Iskander Khamrayev and Igor Sheshukov and stars Kirill Lavrov, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov.