"They wished for death and threatened to burn property": the Russia-24 television channel complained to security forces about threats against the creators of the film about Kolobok.
The TV channel's editorial staff asked the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor's Office to investigate the harassment and threats against the film crew of "The Last Knight. Kolobok." notes The host of the program "Vesti. Duty Unit" stated this to the publication "RusNews".
He also noted that the scandal surrounding the film "has gone far beyond the cultural agenda" and has turned into "a full-fledged battlefield, where dissatisfaction with the quality of the content has mixed with hate, threats, and outright lawlessness online."
“We ask you not to ignore the flagrant facts of harassment and threats against the film crew,” the presenter addressed the security forces. “Uncovering and identifying those who hide behind anonymous accounts and cross the line of the law is a matter of honor.”
As follows from the plot, after the release of the film, the director's phones Anton Maslov and the leading actor Dmitry Zhuravlev Anonymous calls and threatening messages began pouring in. According to Petrov, the film crew and their families "were wished death, and their houses and cars were threatened."
Rossiya-24, however, failed to report that even before the film's premiere, Zhuravlev and Maslov had been aggressively communicating online with a Moscow electrician, who wrote that Soviet cartoons were better drawn. Specifically, Maslov found his critic's personal Telegram channel and began to accuse him, using obscene language, of poor quality work in installing sockets and electrical wiring.
The film about Kolobok, for which the state allocated 250 million rubles, failed Even before the film was released, Russians were extremely reluctant to buy tickets to its premiere.
Viewers were also outraged by the fact that the premiere of the new Spider-Man film was postponed by a whole month because of "Kolobok." The Russian film's rating on Kinoafisha was reduced to one point. And Kinopoisk, instead of the traditional "stars," now rates "Kolobok." did "Spider-Men".
According to cinema websites, which NeMoskva briefly examined, tickets for today's screenings of "Kolobok" are still selling poorly, with many empty seats remaining. Meanwhile, the film's creators claim that it has already grossed 100 million rubles in its first two days of release.
