As Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, the co-director and subject of “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” walked into a Los Angeles cinema for a post-screening Q&A at Variety‘s Screening Series, the Russian schoolteacher-turned-documentarian was approached by an audience member.
“You’ve got balls,” the older man told Talankin, saluting him for the effort he made to chronicle the militarization of the school where he worked in the small town of Karabash and secretly turn it into a documentary.
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