2025 · documentary · spy · political
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Directed by David Borenstein1h 30m2025
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
Our read: Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded documentary · spy · political entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured documentary / spy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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