A Win For Mr. Nobody!
3/18/202621 min
Brooke Gladstone talks with Pasha Talankin, star and co-creator of the new documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin. Pasha is a high school teacher who made an incredibly vivid and detailed account of Putin’s efforts to indoctrinate schoolchildren in Russia.
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Hey, you're listening to the On The Media midweek podcast. I'm Michael Oinger. Apparently, the Russian state news agency, RIA Novosti, left out the documentary film category from its Oscars roundup this week, maybe to avoid having to mention that the Academy Award went to a film that painted an unflattering portrait of the state of propaganda in Russian schools.
David Borenstein· Soundbite1:14
Mr. Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country.
Micah Loewinger· Host1:19
Director David Borenstein accepting the award on Sunday.
David Borenstein· Soundbite1:22
And what we saw when working with this footage that you-- it's that you lose it through countless small little acts of complicity.