Mr. Nobody Against Putin 2025

Overview

Mr. Nobody Against Putin is a 2025 documentary film directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. The documentary follows Pavel Talankin in his job at a school in Karabash, a poor mining town near the Ural Mountains. As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia's hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what is really happening in his own school. The film tells the incredible story of an ordinary Russian teacher who exposed the propaganda machine and secretly documented his small town school's transformation into a war recruitment center. The cast includes Pavel Talankin, Vladimir Putin, Galina Aleksandrovna, and Pavel Abdulmanov. The production countries for the ninety-minute documentary are Denmark, Czechia, and Germany, with the film presented in Russian with English subtitles.