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Mr Nobody Against Putin (Denmark) "Exemplary" The New Yorker
Mon, 16 Mar
|Strand Cinema Caloundra
Pavel “Pasha” Talankin loves his job as a teacher in the small Russian town of Karabash – until his country invades Ukraine. He is outraged by the new government propaganda in the curriculum and the school being used as a military recruitment ground. He records Fascism in action. "Fearless"
Time & Location
16 Mar 2026, 7:00 pm – 8:40 pm
Strand Cinema Caloundra, 11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
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About the Event
Mr Nobody Against Putin film trailer HERE
Documentary. Russian-English with English subtitles
Directed by David Borenstein. Stars Pavel Talankin
15+ 100 Min
Through candid classroom recordings, a Russian teacher risks everything to expose how his government turns schools into propaganda factories.
In Karabash – the Russian copper-smelting city that UNESCO once called the most polluted place on earth – Pavel ‘Pasha’ Talankin is the cheerful, baby-faced ‘cool teacher’ at Primary School 1. As the school’s event coordinator and videographer, it’s his job to upload jubilant footage of lessons, marching drills and patriotic songs to a government website in order to prove that the school is abiding by President Vladimir Putin’s Federal Patriotic Education Policy.