The White List (film)

The White List
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
Release date	November 23, 2023 (2023-11-23)
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

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. The film is loosely based on the events surrounding the police investigation of Blue Whale Challenge controversy in 2016.

Plot

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 lose their focus as they venture deeper into the paranoid world of conspiracy theories surrounding the case.

Cast

• Aleksei Serebryakov as Korotkov
• Vladimir Averyanov as Lazarev
• Yevgenia Kregzhde as Melinikova
• Anastasiya Krasovskaya as Litovchenko
• Aleksey Rozin
• Viktoria Miroshnichenko as Solovyova

External links

• The White List at IMDb