After Mr. Nobody Against Putin won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature Film on Oscars night, director David Borenstein made some subtle parallels between Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America in his acceptance speech. Backstage, Borenstein elaborated a little further.
“One interesting thing about working with a team of Russians throughout this process has been my desire as an American to constantly compare the situation in America to Russia,” says Borenstein. “But a lot of my Russian colleagues and friends always said, ‘No, no, it’s not the same situation. It’s actually happening quicker in America than it’s been happening in Russia.’ Trump is moving a lot quicker than Putin in his early years.”
Mr. Nobody Against Putin follows teacher Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, a teacher in a remote Russian town that refused to go along with Putin’s mandate to teach anti-Ukraine lessons.
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