A Russian court has banned the broadcast of the recent Oscar-winning documentary Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A Russian court on Thursday banned the broadcast on three streaming platforms of the documentary “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, recently awarded at the Oscar gala and which denounces the recruitment of students in the Russian school system, according to Le Figaro.
Pavel Talankin, the Oscar for the best documentary PHOTO: X
In the Chelyabinsk region, at the foot of the Urals, where this documentary was filmed, judge Ksenia Bukharinova granted the request of the Prosecutor's Office, which requested a ban on broadcasting the film on three video hosting services, including VK-video, widely used in Russia, several Russian media reported, News writes.
Prosecutor Evgheni Tumchin asked for this measure, because he considered that the director filmed children without their parents' consent, reported the local media It's my City.
According to the independent television station SotaVision, the judge also considered that the documentary contained “propaganda signs that conveyed a negative attitude towards the government” and towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to an audio recording of her ruling broadcast by SotaVision.
The judge also noted that the director appeared in front of a blue-white-blue flag, which has become a symbol of Russian opponents of the large-scale offensive against Ukraine, but which is also used by the organization “Legion of Freedom from Russia”, classified as a terrorist organization by the Russian authorities.
Pavel Talankin, a pedagogical animator and filmmaker in a school in the small town of Karabakh in the Urals, officially filmed the increasingly intense indoctrination of students imposed by the Russian authorities starting with the offensive launched in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Opposing this war, he fled Russia in the summer of 2024, taking with him the hard drives containing these videos. The images are the basis of the 90-minute film, co-directed by Pavel Talankin and American director David Borenstein, which received the Oscar for Best Documentary in mid-March.
On March 18, a Russian human rights committee had already accused the documentary of using images of minors without their parents' consent. Asked by the media about this documentary, the Kremlin avoided answering several times. The film did not appear in the table summarizing the list of Oscar winners, published by the Russian state news agency Ria Novosti.
