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  • Red Penguins (2019)
  • PG-13
    80 min | Documentary, Sport
Red Penguins (2019)
PG-13
80 min | Documentary, Sport

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 ...See moreRed 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. See less
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Leo Birenberg (music by)
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Updated Sep 5, 2019

Release date
Aug 4, 2020 (United States)

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21 cast members
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George Bush
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Bill Clinton
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Michael Eisner
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Michael J. Fox
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Al Gore
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Larry King
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Vladislav Listyev
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Aleksandr Lyubimov
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Vladimir Putin
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Viktor Tikhonov
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Boris Yeltsin
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