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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Anthony France

Kremlin’s propaganda film about Ukraine war flops as Russians watch Barbie instead

Russia’s first feature-length film about its invasion of Ukraine is playing to near empty cinemas as the nation sources pirate copies of Barbie starring Margot Robbie instead.

The Witness has become a two-hour box office flop after depicting president Volodymyr Zelensky’s men as violent neo-Nazis who torture and kill their own people.

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