Pavel TALANKIN
Павел ТАЛАНКИН
Pavel TALANKINE
Denmark / Czechia, 2025, 90mn 
documentary
Gospodin Nikto protiv Putina
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Господин Никто против Путина

 

 Mr. Nobody Against Putin

 Mr. Nobody contre Poutine

 
Directed by : Pavel TALANKIN (Павел ТАЛАНКИН)
Cinematography : Pavel TALANKIN (Павел ТАЛАНКИН)
Other persons :
David Borenstein : réalisateur, scénariste, monteur Дэвид Боренштейн : режиссёр, сценарист, монтажёр
Companies : Made in Copehnhagen Pink Productions
 
Sites : IMDb, Wikipedia
Release date in France : 2026-01-07, Site
Awards :
Special Jury prize Artdocfest / International, Different cities (World), 2026
First prize One World International Human Rights Film Festival (ex "Jeden Svët" ), Prague (Czech Republic), 2026
First prize Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2025
Oscar for best documentary, 2026
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at Sundance Film Festival 2025
Flêche de cristal, Festival des Arcs, 2025
Plot synopsis
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Pavel, a Russian primary school teacher, is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he starts to document revealing footage of Putin’s regime, capturing the rise of militarized children’s groups, repressive laws, fervent nationalism, and the recruitment of graduating students to fight in the war.
 
commentaries
Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Françoise WILKOWSKI-DEHOVE, pro-fil-online.fr, 2026
«Mr. Nobody Against Putin»: monsieur Tout-le-Monde fait de la résistance, Stéphane BAILLARGEON, Ledevoir.com, 2026
Documentaire. Pavel Talankin, le jeune vidéaste russe qui défie Poutine, Petra PROCHAZKOVA, Courrier international, 2026
Monsieur Personne au pays de Poutine [Mr. Nobody contre Poutine], Olga MEDVEDKOVA, Desk Russie, 2026
Pavel Talankin: Mr Nobody Against Putin, 2025, Oleg SULKIN, Kinokultura, 2026
Mr Nobody against Putin : la propagande russe filmée à hauteur d'enfant par un prof réfugié à Prague, Alexis ROSENZWEIG, Radio Prague International, 2025
Mr Nobody Against Putin review – a teacher fights back in a powerful documentary, Adrian HORTON, theguardian.com, 2025
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN, journal d’un professeur en guerre | Critique, leblogducinema.com, 2025
“They call me a scumbag, but they haven’t seen the film”. Russian teacher who filmed his school’s descent into propaganda during the war now showing the film at Sundance, Pavel TALANKIN, David BORENSTEIN, Interview, zona.media, 2025
«С чьих слов я предатель Родины? Со слов Владимира Путина?» [« Qui a dit que j'étais un traître à la Patrie ? Vladimir Poutine ?], meduza.io, 2025
 
Selected in the following festivals or events :
- One World International Human Rights Film Festival (ex "Jeden Svët" ), Prague (Czech Republic), 2026
- Univerciné à l'Est, Nantes (France), 2026
- Festival du film russe de Paris & Ile-de-France "Une autre Russie", Paris (France), 2026
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2026-01-07
- Artdocfest / International, Different cities (World), 2026
- Festival européen des Arcs, Les Arcs (France), 2025
- Le Doc en Scène, Paris (France), 2025
- Pessac International History Film Festival, Pessac (France), 2025
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2025
- BELDOCS – International Documentary Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2025
- Ukraine in the films on kinoglaz.fr, (kinoglaz.fr), 2023
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