Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Language
- Danish
- Country
- Denmark, Czechia, Germany, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Danish — subtitles on.
The story
As Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, primary schools across Russia’s hinterlands are transformed into recruitment stages for the war. Facing the ethical dilemma of working in a system defined by propaganda and violence, a brave teacher goes undercover to film what’s really happening in his own school.
- undercover
- propaganda
- political activism
- nonviolent resistance
- teacher
- brainwashing
- war propaganda
- school teacher
- schoolteacher
- communist propaganda
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Pavel Talankin
Self
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Roman Abalin
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Lavrentiy Beria
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Viktor Abakumov — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Leon Trotsky — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Dmitry Medvedev — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Vladimir Kara-Murza — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Directed
- David Borenstein
- Written
- David Borenstein
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 142 ratings
- Studio
- Made in Copenhagen, Pink Productions, ZDF, BBC Storyville
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
