Mr Pavel is – as he himself says at the beginning of the film – a 'nobody'. In any case, he is not the person you would spontaneously choose as the resistance hero who dares to take on the almighty and merciless Vladimir Putin. And yet this insignificant but exceptionally engaging primary school teacher in Russia dares to resist the advancing nationalist propaganda in his own way.

DIRECTORS: DAVID BORENSTEIN, PAVEL TALANKIN; GENRE: DOCUMENTARY; CAST: PAVEL TALANKIN; 2025; DENMARK, CZECH REPUBLIC; 1H30; RUSSIAN SPOKEN, DUTCH FRENCH SUBTITLES

AWARDS

At the last edition of DOCVILLE Leuven, the film clearly moved the jury and won the Topics Award. At the Ann Arbor Film Festival, they won the Audience Award in the International Documentary category. They were awarded a Special Mention by the Jury at the Sundance Film Festival. In Prague, they took home the Student Jury Award. They won the award for Best International Documentary at the Calgary International Film Festival.