Maria Efremova is your average filmmaker, journalist, actress, conspiracy theorist, and anti-gay[…]Her latest work behind and in front of the camera is the movie Good Neighbors[…]Promotional materials describe the film as fun for the whole family[…]Good Neighbors is also, somewhat convolutedly, about the search for a kidnapped 10-year-old boy and his mother’s book publisher[…]The abductions are the work of diabolical Leninists who react poorly to new research that “exposes the cult of Ilyich”[…]
In one especially cringe-worthy scene, “would-be bikers Dima and Olya” (the latter played by Efremova) sit together and reminisce about the greatness of the Russian people. Dima recalls something he read from “an English geologist and traveler” who once praised Russians’ ingrained capacity for “compassionate” colonialism. Olya comments on the “accuracy” of this description and then marvels that such perceptiveness was possible from an Englishman, “a representative of the most deceitful nation on Earth”[…]
Efremova’s character explains that “there are Russians by blood” and “there are Russians in spirit — those who have embraced our customs, culture, and moral values.” Dima agrees, adding that the latter group is called “Russified.” Laughing, he points out that no one but Russians has this infectious, universal appeal — not the British, the French, the Armenians, and especially not the Jews

In another scene, a character named Vera warns her son that Lenin’s Mausoleum functions as a “teraphim,” which she describes as an accursed object made from the dried heads of infants allegedly killed by Jews[…]
Later in the film, someone calls Lenin a “lispy Judas” and accuses him of “destroying the Russian Empire,” “ruining the country,” “carrying out a genocide of Russians,” and “selling Crimea to Jewish tycoons”[…]
After Good Neighbors disappeared from Star Media’s platforms, Efremova published an article titled Why Were the Jews Frightened by the Russian Film ‘Good Neighbors’?