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      Video From TV Drama Viral As Fake Dead Bodies In Bucha

      The clip was recorded for a Russian TV drama in Vsevolozhsk near Saint Petersburg on March 20, 2022.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  6 May 2022 4:44 PM IST
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      Video From TV Drama Viral As Fake Dead Bodies In Bucha

      Footage of two men handling a mannequin is circulating in social media posts that claim it shows a "prop" passed off as a dead body in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, where dozens of corpses were discovered in April after Russian forces retreated. In fact, the video — viewed hundreds of thousands of times — was not filmed in Bucha. It was recorded for a Russian TV drama in Vsevolozhsk near Saint Petersburg on March 20, 2022.

      "The video shows the Ukrainian army preparing a prop for a staged shooting," reads a simplified Chinese post on April 7 on Weibo, China's Twitter-like platform.

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      The footage, superimposed with text ""Dead" bodies in Bucha", shows two men in military uniform holding a mannequin.


      Screenshot of a Weibo post sharing the false claim, taken on April 28, 2022

      An AFP team were the first journalists to discover the horrors of Bucha, a quiet commuter town near Kyiv occupied by the Russian army for over a month.

      Russian troops are accused of massacring hundreds of civilians there, shocking the world and prompting allegations of war crimes.

      The footage was viewed more than 370,000 times in similar posts here and here, and spread in various languages such as French and Spanish.

      However, the claim is false.

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      Russian actor's video

      Reverse image searches on Google have found the original video posted on TikTok on March 29 by Russian actor Philippe Fedortchouk.

      The Russian-language post reads: "Preparing a mannequin for a fall scene".

      Below is a screenshot comparison of the video shared in false posts (left) and on TikTok (right).

      A screenshot comparison of the video shared in false posts (L) and the TikTok video (R)

      Fedorchouk told AFP he filmed the video on March 20 on the set of a TV series in Vsevolozhsk, a town near Saint Petersburg.

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      He shared the metadata from the original video, which shows the footage was filmed on an iPhone 11 Pro Max on March 20 at 5:43 pm Moscow time.


      A screenshot, taken on April 12, 2022, on the Metadata2go site

      The GPS coordinates in the metadata show the footage was shot in Vsevolozhsk.


      A screenshot, taken on April 12, 2022, of the coordinates-gps.fr website.

      Behind-the-scenes footage

      Maria Nistryanu, a crew member for the TV drama, said staff were preparing the mannequin for a scene in which a character fatally falls from a building and lands on a parked car in the street.

      "You can see our stunt coordinator and his assistant preparing the mannequin. They're wrapping it in tape to prevent it from being damaged during the fall," she told AFP.

      She said the mannequin was then covered in animal organs and dressed in clothing to make the deadly fall more realistic.

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      AFP has seen a production schedule for the TV series -- whose name has not yet been revealed publicly -- which shows the fall scene planned for March 20.

      Nadezhda Kolobaeva, the series' first assistant director, posted photos and videos of the scene being filmed on Facebook on April 8.

      She said the production team had nicknamed the mannequin "Albertik".

      "For those of us who miss Albertik. The stunt coordinator Alexandre Ouvarov, the main hero (after Albertik)," she wrote in the Russian post.

      A screenshot, taken on April 28, of the behind-the-scenes photos and videos.

      Buildings visible in a photo shared on Kolobaeva's Facebook page correspond to Google Street View images of 8/9 Leningradskaya, in Vsevolozhsk.

      Comparison of the filming location shown in a photo on Kolobaeva's Facebook page (L) and Google Street View (R) with similarities highlighted

      Nistryanu said that "Albertik" had become somewhat of a celebrity among film crews in the region.

      "He belongs to our stunt team, who use him quite a lot for various scenes, especially explosions, falls or dangerous scenes," she told AFP.

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      AFP has debunked a wave of misinformation around the Ukraine conflict.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Video shows a mannequin being passed off as a dead body in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
      Claimed By :  Posts on Weibo and Twitter
      Fact Check :  False
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