Actor Maxim Vitorgan was replaced with a diplay in the series "Contact"

In the second season of the Russian series “Contact”, the face of the actor Maxim Vitorgan was replaced with a dipfect (an image generated by neurosetes), and his name was cut out of the credits. Attention was paid to the telegram channel "Russian cinema in the top".

The published screenshot shows that Vitorgan's face was changed, but the artist’s features are guessed in him.

Vitorgan ironically called what happened a great "artistic and ideological victory."

According to him, rumors reached him that the creators of the series were given the task of "cut it out of there", but it turned out to be problematic, since it had a good large and plot -forming role. “But! We are not used to retreating and saving Gazprom's money,” wrote Vitorgan on Instagram.

The series "Contact" is released on the Premier platform belonging to Gazprom Media.

On February 24, 2022, Vitorgan condemned the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, calling him a shame.

Previously cut out of the series were other artists who opposed the war in Ukraine. Ivan Urgant and Maxim Galkin were cut out of the film "Eduard High. Tears of Brighton", and Maria Mashkov from the Russian series "Operation" Throne "on the channel" Russia ", in which she played a major role. In February" Major "the 40-second episode with the Ukrainian singer Vera Brezhneva was cut out. In the same month, the audience noticed, in the same month, the audience noticed, in the same month. that from the repetition of the series "Home arrest" on TNT, the screenwriter and producer of which was Semyon Slepakov (recognized as an ino -agent), the song performed by him "How much money is needed to become happy."

• After the start of a full -scale armed invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, musicians and artists who opposed the war collided with the abolition of concerts and performances in Russia. In Moscow and in some other Russian cities, the names of the directors Kirill Serebrennikov and Dmitry Krymov, as well as the writer Boris Akunin, were removed from the theatrical posters.