Red Silk (2025) on Netflix
In 1927, papers that could decide the futures of the Soviet Union and China ride the Trans-Siberian Railway. A Chekist officer and a former Tsarist agent board the train, among hidden enemies.
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Plot summary
A list of Communist agents' names must reach Moscow from the Chinese border by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Wang Lin and her friend Li Bao escort Teacher Gao, who holds the list, out of Manchuria after Kuomintang agents raid the Shanghai silk factory where Communist banners were sewn. Nikolay Garin has spent ten years abroad as a Tsarist agent and wants to return to Russia, and in Shanghai he offers Russian intelligence word of a Kuomintang plan to destroy the Communist party there. Artyom Svetlov, a young Chekist, is posted to a border outpost near China. When Honghuzi bandits attack the couriers, Garin appears in the snow with a machine gun and drives them off, counting on the Chinese group to carry him back into Russia.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Red Silk (2025)
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- Red Silk draws on a real event: the 6th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held in the Moscow region in 1928, whose delegates crossed Russia on the Trans-Siberian Railway at great risk, hunted by Kuomintang agents and several foreign intelligence services, escorted by Comintern members including the young translator Artyom Svetlov.
- Zheng Hanyi, who plays the courier Wang Lin, makes her cinema debut in Red Silk; the filmmakers found her after a long casting search at a St Petersburg theater institute, where she had enrolled four years earlier and learned Russian well.
