The Red Captain, an adaptation of a popular crime detective novel by Dominik Dán, set an opening weekend record for a domestic film in Slovakia with 36,328 admissions. It was released by Forum Film Slovakia s.r.o. on 10 March 2016.
The Red Captain is the story of a detective dealing with an extraordinary case of murder in 1992 Bratislava, which can be connected with the church and the secret police. The script was written by Miro Šifra, Michal Kollár and Anna Fifíková. The film used 380 special effects scenes, a record in Slovak film history.
The film was produced by Slovakia’s SOKOL KOLLAR, spol. s.r.o. in coproduction with Fog’n’Desire Films from the Czech Republic and Poland‘s MD4. It was supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, RTVS, Czech Television, Barrandov Studio and S Pro Alfa.
