Text (2019) on Netflix
Ilya Goryunov leaves prison after seven years on a false drug charge, seeking payback from Pyotr Khazin, the policeman he blames. He takes Pyotr's smartphone and begins texting as him.
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Plot summary
The drug charge that puts Ilya Goryunov behind bars is false, and it costs him seven years in prison. He comes out at twenty-seven into a life where the things he missed are gone. He holds Pyotr Khazin, the policeman who framed him, responsible for those years, and when the two meet face to face Ilya takes Pyotr's smartphone. On it are Pyotr's photographs and clips, his conversations with his parents and with his girlfriend Nina, and messages from colleagues that read like threats. Ilya begins answering those messages in Pyotr's name, keeping up the other man's life from a distance.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Text (2019)
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- Street, metro and train scenes in Text were shot without closing the area to ordinary passers-by, using a half-hidden camera concealed inside an animal carrier.
- Text used real locations: the Goryunov apartment was an ordinary residential building, the sewer scene was shot in a working sewer about 10 metres underground in Moscow's Troparyovo-Nikulino District, and metro scenes were filmed after official permission was negotiated.
- Rapper Basta wrote the song It's scary to live like this for Text after watching the film; its music video was directed by the film's director, Klim Shipenko, and Alexander Petrov appears in it as his character Ilya Goryunov.
