Watch: Red Penguins 2019 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: Shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Pittsburgh Penguins and the famed Red Army hockey team formed a joint venture that redefined what was possible in the new Russia. Eccentric marketing whiz, Steve Warshaw, is sent to Moscow and tasked to transform the team into the greatest show in Russia, attracting some of the biggest names in Hollywood and advertising along the way. He takes the viewer on a bizarre journey highlighting a pivotal moment in U.S.-Russian relations during a lawless era when oligarchs made their fortunes and multiple murders went unsolved.
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Two faces of capitalism
Russia was a lawless place following the fall of communism. Gangsters carved up what remained of the economy; and westerners flooded in, also looking for a quick buck, both exploiting the lack of order, but also threatened by it. The owners of an American ice hockey team decided to opportunistically buy a Russian one, and sent over a young huckster to market it; he had the time of his life, doing all sorts of things he could never have got away with in America. But when the money started to flow, the mafia wanted it. ‘Red Penguins’ tells the story, with interviews with most of the participants. It’s entertaining, though also a disturbing tale. Fundamentally, the documentary is centred on its personalities: it gives us a flavour of the times, more than it does a detailed explanation. It’s conclusion, showing us pictures of a drunken Boris Yeltsin, makes the point figuratively rather than logically. Today there is order in Russia once more, albeit not in the happiest of ways. Some of those who stole and got their money out are now regarded as perfectly acceptable members of the global elite. That’s capitalism, folks!
Alright – Interesting Topic
The trailer looked crazy-good, but the trailer is packed with all the crazy there is. Spread that out over an hour and a half and it’s less exhilarating. That said, it’s a pretty interesting look at Russia at the time and how the politics and civil unrest were destabilizing it. I found those parts more interesting than the hockey parts.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 20 min (80 min)
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Rated PG-13
Genre Documentary, Sport
Director Gabe Polsky
Writer Gabe Polsky
Actors Howard Baldwin, Alexander Baranovsky, George Bush
Country United States, Germany
Awards 3 nominations
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