Mr Nobody against Putin - documentary wins Oscar

[mysteryowl]

...film is about how you lose your country...you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity..."

There is more during the acceptance speech.

Brave! teacher would not comply with Putin.

[Nanjeanne]

1. Democracy Now had excellent interview with director, Borenstein and teacher, Talankin this morning

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/3/16/mr_nobody_against_putin_interview]

AMY GOODMAN: That’s the trailer to the film Mr Nobody Against Putin. I recently spoke to the film’s director, David Borenstein, and the subject of the film, Russian school teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin. I asked Pasha to talk about what motivated him to go from being a school teacher, a videographer at the school, to being a whistleblower.

PAVEL TALANKIN: [translated] I need for as many people as possible to see what is happening inside of Russian schools. It all began when the first directives from the government came into the school with requirements of what lessons to teach. And that’s when I got really angry and knew that people needed to know what was going on. And that’s what led to the film.
So, really, my motivation was that people know that what these children are being forced to hear, that Putin is forcing propaganda into their schools, and they’re absorbing all of this. And we’ll see what kind of generation winds up in five or 10 years after they’ve been learning this every day.

Watch or read whole interview.

[mysteryowl]

2. Thank you for sharing this.

I think of how schools in US, mostly in the south, are going through white-washing. The texts and teachings eliminate slavery and the true cause of US civil war and much more.