"Mr Nobody Against Putin is about how you lose your country. And what we saw when working with this footage is that you lose it through countless, small, little acts of complicity. When a government murders people on the streets of our major cities, when we don't say anything, when oligarchs take over the media and control how we could produce it and consume it we all face a moral choice."
"But luckily, even a nobody is more powerful than you think. Talankin meanwhile issued a plea on behalf of the countries where instead of shooting stars they have shooting bombs and shooting drones. In the name of our future, in the name of all of our children, stop all of these wars now."
Mr Nobody Against Putin, a documentary by Pavel Talankin and David Borenstein, won the Oscar for best documentary. The film documents a primary school teacher's efforts against indoctrinating pupils to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Talankin, now exiled in Europe, and Borenstein accepted the award, beating other nominees including The Perfect Neighbor. Borenstein emphasized that countries are lost through small acts of complicity, and that individuals possess more power than they realize to resist. Talankin appealed for an end to all wars. This marks the third critical film about the Russian government to win the Oscar this decade, following Navalny and 20 Days in Mariupol.
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