THE WHITE LIST
2023
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Duration 1 hour 40 minutes
description:
During a nationwide moral panic caused by a recent spike in teenage suicides two federal investigators are sent to a small Russian town 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 loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.
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The script is inspired by 2016's "Blue Whale Challenge" controversy caused by a newspaper investigation that linked a number of unrelated teenage suicides across Russia to a "suicide game" allegedly played by teenagers on a Russian social network VK.
2024 Nomination
Russian Guild of Film Critics
crew:
director
writers
producers
composer
cinematographer
editor
pr.Designer
Alisa Khazanova
Alisa Khazanova, Roman Volobuev
Alisa Khazanova, Igor Mishin, Artem Vasiliev
Igor Vdovin
George Dascalescu
Roman Volobuev
Ekaterina Shcheglova
cast:
Korotkov
Litovchenko
Solovyeva
Lazarev
Melnikova
Aleksey Serebryakov
Anastasiya Krasovskaya
Viktoria Miroshnichenko
Vladimir Averyanov
​Evgeniya Kregzhde