One-off
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Director(s):
SADREEV (Igor), URZHANOV (Aleksander)
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Producer(s):
KOBALT PRODUCTIONS, RBB, WDR
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2025
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
On August 24, 2024, Telegram CEO and tech billionaire Pavel Durov is arrested at Paris-Le Bourget airport, making headlines. The controversial Franco-Russian founder faces an official investigation, raising a key question long posed by the EU: how responsible is a platform’s creator for the content it hosts? The case draws global attention, including from Silicon Valley.
The key question about Telegram and its enigmatic founder Pavel Durov is simple: hero or villain? Is it a haven for extremists and propaganda or a defender of free speech, privacy, and dissidents? Telegram is called a messenger, a social network, a media, but no one is calling Telegram what it actually is: a Big Disruptor of the offline rules. Same as Uber or Airbnb, but for the spreading of information. In an age of digital firewalls, geopolitical tech wars, and massive antitrust fines, Telegram continues to operate as if it’s still the freewheeling early Internet, defying borders and state control.