Is it true that Netflix will be a documentary about Norilsk?

Recently, Russian Internet users were surprised by reports that the Netflix streaming giant will release a full-length documentary about life in Norilsk. A trailer and a poster even appeared on the Web. We checked whether this is a real project.

The news of the upcoming documentary about the Russian city of the Krasnoyarsk Territory appeared in March 2023 and widely diverged through social networks and the media. For example, in the Netflix fan public in Vkontakte, publication with the Norilsk poster at the time of writing this text Sicked More than 33,000 views. The post reports: “Showranners Chris Smith and Jan Sikora intend to show residents of warm lands, how difficult living conditions in an industrial city with abnormal weather conditions can be. The project will affect both the economy of the region and the opinions of people about life in the city. ” In the NR community (278,000 views) Addedthat "users of social networks are already waiting for the release of the film, and some are sincerely surprised how you can live in the Far North." The poster also placed public "Absidable"(60,000 views),"Say 13 - Music 2023"(21,000), and communities shared the advertising trailer PostNews (69,000), "I live in Krasnoyarsk"(33,000),"Krasnoyarsk Live"(19,000),"Norilcans"(14,000) and others. At the same time, most publications indicate that the release of the tape will take place on April 17, but occasionally there is another date - April 13th.

Telegram about the release of the film about Norilsk from Netflix reported channels "Live broadcast"(648,000 views),"Truthfulness"(234,000),"Rhymes and Panchi"(188 000),"The tape of the day"(68 000),"Federation"(68 000) and Anton S Live (58,000). Among the media about the documentary, the Krasnoyarsk edition of the newspaper told "Komsomolskaya Truth", Lenta.ru (in their social networks here And here), "7 Channel Krasnoyarsk"As well as publications"Lead the planets" And Gornovosti.ru.

To begin with, if you carefully watch the trailer of the film, you can find many mistakes and conflicting details. So, the poster really indicates that the release of the picture is scheduled for April 17, while at the end of the video a different date is reported on April 13. In addition, there are many inaccuracies in the trailer subtitles:

• Inconsistency of the Dictor's words. For example, the text says “Tinier Deposits of Bass and Precious and Metals” (“Smaller Bas and Precious and Metals” deposits), and “Taimyr DePosits of Base and Precious Metals” was uttered (“Taimyr deposits metals ");
• Numerous typos (Chnce instead of Chance, Guarantess instead of Guarantees and Sustainble instead of Sustainable);
• words of words (Focus instead of OUR FOCUS, Alliance instead of this alliance);
• Once the name of Norilsk was written with a lowercase letter (Norilsk);
• Some sentences do not begin with a capital letter and do not end with any punctuation marks.

It is hard to imagine that in a two -minute trailer for the Netflix project editors would not notice so many mistakes.

Moreover, there is a typo even in the name of the video on YouTube, where it is written “Directed and Wrinter Ján Šikora”, although it will be correct “Directed and Written by Ján šikora” (“Filmed and written by Jan Shikura”) or “Director and Writer Ján Šikora ”(“ Director and screenwriter Yang Shikora ”). At the same time, there is no one named Ján Šikora in the world's largest movie about the world about the IMDB movie, but There is Three people with a similar name (Jan Sikora), but none of them on the track record have work as a director or screenwriter.

There is no trailer for a documentary about Norilsk on the official YouTube-Netflix channel. The video is not mentioned in social networks And on site American streaming service, as well as in Instagram*-count and on site Studios of the filmmaker Chris Smith, who really Produced For Netflix, several successful documentary projects, including the Tiger King. In fact, the Norilsk trailer on March 10, 2023 appeared (already inaccessible) on the channel Joel-KF With less than 100 subscribers and 15 videoswho gained a maximum of several hundred views. How says Description of the profile in the Hungarian language, its author is engaged in the creation of remixes and video clips mainly on the topic of video games.

According to the Krasnoyarsk service of the newspaper "Arguments and facts", Some people who watched the trailer noticed that the video consists of shots of other videos about Norilsk. So, the Youtube user Yuri Redchits wrote: “Why is this“ nonflick ”my personnel, which I myself shot? Copyright violates mine, I did not give them consent. " On channel There is a rarefitsa video called “Norilsk) Norilsk Winter, downloaded to the site 11 years ago, and some scenes from this video really got into the viral trailer (for example, moments at time marks 4:58 And 6:21 correspond to the scenes of the trailer at 1:42 and 1:54). Moreover, in the trailer of the alleged Netflix film, many personnel from trailer another documentary tape - the Canadian full -length picture "On the nickel moon»2017 from the director Francois Jacob and Les Films Camera Oscura.

They do not know anything about the creation of the film and the authorities of Norilsk. Deputy head of the press service of the city administration Julia Okuneva told The correspondent of “arguments and facts” that the streaming service did not request permission to shoot: “There were no requests for shooting in the city from Netflix or its representatives. We also saw these messages, but we have no information about it. ”

Interesting details were shared by the Krasnoyarsk journalistic Telegram channel "Borus". In addition to the poster from the already inaccessible Instagram account Norilskthefilm, they showed the page of the film about Norilsk with a typo in the first line (Dokumbary instead of Documentary). Borus also said that someone created the page of the film on Wikipedia (already deleted), which indicated that the picture in the Hungarian language, despite the English-language trailer (although you could notice the Hungarian-language tape on Instagram). Krasnoyarsk journalists called the documentary about Norilsk a “skillful stuffing” (which is difficult to agree with, given all the mistakes and inaccuracies) and believe that someone was successfully joked: “It remains to guess: who and why?”

In the description of the Joel-KF YouTube channel, where the trailer was posted, links to the pages of the author in Twitter And Instagram (In the Norilskthefilm account, it was written that this is a director’s profile). According to Twitter's description, Yang Shikora from Slovakia and was born in 2003. On the night of March 13 to 14, in his Instagram, he posted a story in Russian, where he said that the documentary about Norilsk would not be released on Netflix, but on other platforms. Around the same time on his Twitter Shikora wrotethat the film is canceled.

On the evening of March 14, “verified” talked with Shikora, who introduced himself to us the director of a documentary from Hungary. He said that he chose the city of Norilsk by mistake, because he did not know that a year ago Netflix Stopped work in Russia. According to Shikora, he made a film at home and initially expected it to release it on Netflix, and now it would allegedly post it on some free venues (although he previously announced the cancellation of the project). According to his idea, the picture was supposed to be a collection of other people's video materials. To our question about how he was going to release the film on Netflix without buying copyright, Shikora replied that he lied about rights, so it would be problematic to finish the film. After our question about creating a page on Wikipedia, he blocked us.

In social networks of Shikors, you can find other projects that he allegedly worked with Netflix and other services. For example:

• He laid out his Tisader-trailer adaptation of video games Dead Space for Amazon Prime Video;
• showed personal poster T -shirt, whom he played in the series on The Last of Us from HBO;
• Share Poster the film "Slenderman" from Netflix, for which he wrote the script;
• Published Screenshot Variety articles that the actor Jan Shikora will play in the series “Wheel of Time” from Amazon Prime Video.

In reality, Shikora himself created all these materials and never participated in the creation of such projects.

Thus, the documentary about Norilsk will not be released on Netflix and has never been planned by this streaming platform. The whole story was invented by a person who previously created fake humorous materials on various projects of streaming services more than once.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Instagram, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

Photo on the cover: ján šikora

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