A Russian schoolteacher smuggled footage abroad and made an award-winning documentary about wartime propaganda. Here’s how his hometown reacted.

A Russian schoolteacher smuggled footage abroad and made an award-winning documentary about wartime propaganda. Here’s how his hometown reacted.

Karabash used to be known as “the most polluted city in the world,” however then, in 2025, it achieved fame thanks as a substitute to the documentary movie Mr. Nobody towards Putin. Now the movie is up for an Oscar. The movie’s co-director, 34-year-old college occasions coordinator Pavel Talankin, filmed patriotic college occasions in Karabash and then left Russia, taking the footage with him. As quickly as the movie…

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