Redirected (2014) Cast
Redirected is an ensemble piece organised around a four-man British heist crew and the local criminal — played by Vinnie Jones — whose ring they steal. The Lithuanian supporting cast, anchored by the late Vytautas Šapranauskas in his final film, carries the cultural specificity that makes the road-movie middle act work.
The story sets up four men hired by Karl to rob an illegal London poker game and lift the ring of a local heavy known as Golden Pole. Three of them — John, Tim and Ben — are professional. The fourth, Michael, is a Buckingham Palace guard who happens to be the right size and is kidnapped into the job at short notice. When the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash cloud diverts their post-heist escape flight to Lithuania, the cast list extends to include the Vilnius criminal underworld that follows the cash.
The London crew
Gil Darnell as John
The talker. Darnell handles the dialogue-heavy comic beats, particularly the long Vilnius sequences where the language gap leaves his rhetorical strategies stranded.
Oliver Jackson as Tim
The wildcard. Jackson plays Tim as the member of the group whose interior logic the script keeps slightly opaque — until a third-act decision shifts the entire arc.
Antony Strachan as Ben
Original heister. Antony Strachan carries the African-smuggler bar-brawl sequence and the Staska torture scene that anchors the middle act's escalation.
Scot Williams as Michael
The 4th man — kidnapped from his post at Buckingham Palace because the team needs a guard's-sized body. The moral compass the rest of the crew doesn't have.
The antagonist
Lithuanian cast — anchored by Šapranauskas's final film
Redirected was the final film of Vytautas Šapranauskas, one of Lithuania's most beloved comedy and drama actors, who died on 18 April 2013, ten months before the film's January 2014 Lithuanian premiere. The film carries an on-screen dedication to him. His presence as Priest — a Lithuanian figure who the British leads encounter mid-act — is part of why the Lithuanian reception was so emotionally charged.
Vytautas Šapranauskas as Priest
One of Lithuania's most celebrated comedy and drama actors of his generation. Redirected was his last film — a posthumous release dedicated to his memory.
Andrius Žiurauskas as Staska
Lithuanian heavy who tortures Ben and Tim in the middle act's pivot into third-act danger.
Artur Smolyaninov as Doncius
Russian actor whose presence widens the linguistic frame from Lithuanian-only to the broader post-Soviet sphere.
Mindaugas Papinigis as Vova
Lithuanian actor in the supporting ensemble.
Karina Stungytė as Rūta
Lithuanian female lead encountered in the middle-act road sequences.
Vita Šiaučiūnaitė as Saulė
Lithuanian actor in the supporting ensemble.
Kęstutis Jakštas as Police Officer
The corrupt local police officer who figures in the third-act sequence.
Marius Repšys as Staska's guy
Supporting Lithuanian heavy, working in the Staska network.
Why the four-handed structure
British heist comedies in the Lock, Stock tradition tend to use four to seven leads — enough to share screen time, generate intra-group dynamics, and divide between the comic and dramatic registers. Redirected sticks to four because the road-movie form punishes larger groups: a van or a small car has to physically carry the cast, and the script is repeatedly interested in the four of them squeezed into the same space arguing.
The casting also balances visibility — Vinnie Jones as the marquee face but on the antagonist side — with four less internationally known British actors who don't have established personas to lean on. That means Darnell, Jackson, Strachan and Williams can disappear into their roles in a way the Jones brand wouldn't allow.