The White List (Russian: Белый список, translit. Beliy Spisok) is a 2023 Russian police procedural drama film directed by Alisa Khazanova from the script by Roman Volobuev and starring Aleksei Serebryakov.[1] The film is loosely based on the events surrounding the police investigation of Blue Whale Challenge controversy in 2016.[2]
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| Directed by | Alisa Khazanova |
| Written by | Roman Volobuev |
| Produced by | Artyom Vasilev Igor Mishin |
| Starring | Aleksei Serebryakov Vladimir Averyanov Yevgenia Kregzhde Anastasiya Krasovskaya |
| Cinematography | George Dascalescu |
| Edited by | Roman Volobuev |
| Music by | Igor Vdovin |
Production company | Metrafilm |
| Distributed by | MTS Media |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Plot
editIn the midst of a nationwide moral panic caused by a newspaper article linking a recent spike in teenage suicides across Russia to a viral 'suicide game' two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town of Podolsk to review a cold case involving a suspicious death of a schoolgirl. Initially seeing their task as a mere PR stunt both gradually start to lose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.[3]
Cast
edit- Aleksei Serebryakov as Korotkov
- Vladimir Averyanov as Lazarev
- Yevgenia Kregzhde as Melinikova
- Anastasiya Krasovskaya as Litovchenko
- Aleksey Rozin
- Viktoria Miroshnichenko as Solovyova
References
edit- ^ Macnab, Geoffrey. "Russian indie production outfit MetraFilms ramps up slate". Screen. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ "Алиса Хазанова снимет фильм о группах смерти в интернете". ТАСС. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
- ^ "Кинокомпания «Метрафильмс» и онлайн-кинотеатр Kion начали съемки нового фильма Алисы Хазановой". kinometro.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2021-11-08.