Alexei Kravchenko criticized Egor Kreed's music video featuring a frame from Come and See

Kravchenko on the incident

People's Artist of Russia Alexei Kravchenko, who played Flyora in the film Come and See, said on the Pervy Informatsionny TV channel that he was deeply struck by how a frame from the film was distorted in Egor Kreed's music video. 'I would never have thought this could be mocked. I am, of course, deeply shocked by the situation,' the actor said. According to him, when the film was shown in cinemas, several ambulances were on standby nearby. He called such incidents a failure of parents and urged raising children not as 'half-finished products' but as human beings 'with a capital letter, with a soul.' Kravchenko also wondered whether there are organizations that should be monitoring such cases, and if there are none, suggested that 'things will only get worse.' Gazeta.Ru reported this.

The essence of the conflict and the reaction

Egor Kreed appeared in the music video for the song 'Mily Ublyudok' wearing a long-sleeve shirt featuring a frame from Come and See — a film about the tragedy of a Belarusian village and the genocide during the Great Patriotic War. The designer who produced the item added piercings and tattoos to Flyora's image. After the incident received wide publicity, Kreed said he had not watched the film and had bought the sweatshirt by accident, and apologized. The music video and the item's creator were criticized by the Mosfilm film concern and the Public Chamber; complaints asking to hold the rapper criminally liable were filed with the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee of Russia. A lawyer previously explained whether he would be held liable — the conclusions of that explanation are not given in the publication, so the legal consequences of the incident remain uncertain for now.