David Borenstein: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
This is not a review. The film is already known and has been shown in Denmark and came home from Sundance with an award. Adrian Horton wrote this (a quote) in Guardian to refresh your memory and for all those who are to watch the film during the festival:
…Any formal quibbles I had while viewing – and there were few – were easily overridden by fascination and gratitude, so infrequently is an unvarnished, honest, personal portrait of Russian daily life available to a western audience, especially since the invasion. To wit, this film was only possible because of a documentary team outside of the country, and the fact that Talankin, at great personal cost, decided to leave Russia for an undisclosed destination, an outcome the film touches on just briefly at its bookends. Mr Nobody Against Putin ultimately stands as both an act of service and a tribute – to a school that once was, to students whose lives were and will be irrevocably changed for the worse by the regime, to a once fruitful job. Talankin has produced a must-watch, indelible document of ideological warfare that echoes far beyond Russia. How’s that for a nobody?…
