The White List (Russian: Белый список, translit. Beliy Spisok) is an upcoming Russian police procedural drama directed by Alisa Khazanova from the script by Roman Volobuev and starring Alexey Serebryakov.[1] The film is loosely based on the events surrounding the police investigation of Blue Whale Challenge controversy in 2016.[2]
| The White List Белый список | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alisa Khazanova |
| Written by | Roman Volobuev |
| Produced by | Artyom Vasilev, Igor Mishin |
| Starring | Aleksei Serebryakov Vladimir Averyanov Victoria Kregzde Anastasia Krasovskaya |
| Cinematography | George Dascalescu |
| Edited by | Roman Volobuev |
| Music by | Igor Vdovin |
Production company | Metrafilm |
| Distributed by | MTS Media |
Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
In 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 loose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.[3]