8.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Documentary • 2025 • 90 min
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Overview
Pavel Talankin, a primary school teacher in Russia's remote mining town of Karabash, covertly films the imposition of pro-war propaganda and militarization in his school's daily activities after the 2022 Ukraine invasion. Co-directed by Talankin and David Borenstein, the documentary leverages insider access from Talankin's position as the school's official videographer. It explores how state policies infiltrate education and affect children in peripheral communities.
Starring Cast
N/A
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Mixed
Viewer Rating
8.2
Overview
Pavel Talankin, a primary school teacher in Russia's remote mining town of Karabash, covertly films the imposition of pro-war propaganda and militarization in his school's daily activities after the 2022 Ukraine invasion. Co-directed by Talankin and David Borenstein, the documentary leverages insider access from Talankin's position as the school's official videographer. It explores how state policies infiltrate education and affect children in peripheral communities.
Starring Cast
N/A
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High
Pavel Talankin's undercover footage from a Russian school exposes the Putin regime's wartime propaganda and control over education. The filmmakers, with insider access as co-director, critique authoritarian indoctrination while posing the question of how ordinary individuals can resist systemic lies through personal defiance.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
The documentary features subjects reflecting some ethnic diversity within Russia's population and centers a sharp critique of authoritarianism under white male leadership, highlighting the regime's manipulative impact on ordinary citizens.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: High
The documentary depicts family peripherally through the protagonist's collaboration with his mother at work and the war's devastating effect on one student's household, without delving into family structures, roles, or values. This scarcity of family content results in a neutral portrayal.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary features no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on anti-war resistance and propaganda in a Russian school amid the Ukraine invasion.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
The documentary presents no transsexual characters or themes, offering no portrayal to evaluate for net impact.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
This documentary follows a real Russian teacher documenting propaganda in his school, portraying individuals as they are without gender alterations from any source material or historical records.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
This documentary chronicles a real Russian teacher's covert documentation of his school's role in war recruitment, using authentic footage without actors or fictional character portrayals, resulting in no race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.4
7.4
Critic Ratings
10.0
8.0
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