The film magazine “Aloud!”, which shot a propaganda video about a girl who comes to plastic surgeons to remove a swastika burned on her skin in Ukrainian captivity, is produced by the company “Artos,” the publication “Kholod” found out.
One of the creators of the film magazine, Evgeny Popov, was the producer of the “Quartet I” comedies “Radio Day”. The second founder of the project is Konstantin Charalampidis, who made films on Orthodox themes (“From Christmas to Resurrection” and “Trans-Ili Favor”). He also staged a requiem concert for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Moscow and organized an action in Kazakhstan«We are millions of Panfilovites».
Until 2022, the Artos company was called “Father Frost” — among the projects of this studio were the series “Liquidation” and a television adaptation of Vasily Grossman’s novel “Life and Fate”.
In 2021, the studio's revenue amounted to less than 12 million rubles. Moreover, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the income of the Artos company increased almost tenfold — to 111.5 million rubles. As Kholod found out, she receives part of the money from Mosgarantfond, which belongs to the Moscow mayor’s office. The film magazine “Aloud” is also supported by the Internet Development Institute, the Orthodox TV channel “Spas”, the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives and the Cinema Fund.
Editor-in-Chief of the film magazine “Aloud!” listed as director of the public organization “Institute of Demographic Security” Irina Medvedeva. As Kholod notes, in an interview with the pro-war YouTube channel Empathy Manuchi, she spoke about “fascist atrocities” in Ukraine and “the new ethics that suppresses the human race.” In her opinion, it is important to talk to teenagers about the war, since “tomorrow they will be soldiers.”
Clips from the film magazine “Aloud!” They are recommended to watch in schools in occupied Donetsk; they are also shown to Moscow schoolchildren during thematic classes, as well as meetings with veterans.
The authors of the project claim that they are fighting “human vices.” The studio has already released more than 70 videos; actors are paid from 15 to 35 thousand rubles for filming in each of them.
One of the most famous “short stories” of the newsreel is a video called “Nadezhda” about a girl who came to plastic surgeons to remove the swastika burned on her back in Ukrainian captivity. After seeing what they saw, the doctors say that they will help her for free and decide to go to war.
After the invasion of Ukraine, “social advertising” began to be frequently filmed in Russia: for example, a series of videos about mobilization were released, where people who left the country were criticized; state-run RT released a video about a “Russophobic Christmas in Europe,” which showed how “due to poverty and hunger caused by the refusal of Russian gas,” a family eats a hamster that they gave to their daughter.
In July, pro-war telegram channels and media distributed the video “Heil, Zelensky” in German. According to the plot, people in uniform go into a family’s home and take away their property “to help Ukraine.” Russian actors starred in the video.