| The White List | |
| Director: | Alisa Khazanova |
| Producer: | Artyom Vasilev Igor Mishin |
| Starring: | Aleksei Serebryakov Vladimir Averyanov Yevgenia Kregzhde Anastasiya Krasovskaya |
| Cinematography: | George Dascalescu |
| Editing: | Roman Volobuev |
| Music: | Igor Vdovin |
| Studio: | Metrafilm |
| Distributor: | MTS Media |
| Runtime: | 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.[1] The film is loosely based on the events surrounding the police investigation of Blue Whale Challenge controversy in 2016.[2]
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.[3]