The Golden Buttons

The Golden Buttons

2020 · 20 min · Documentary

“Everyone can accomplish a heroic act in their life” hammers home the instructor. But such a destiny is prepared for in the presidential school of cadets that trains volunteer teenagers to serve in the National Guard created by Putin in 2016. Alex Evstigneev photographs these future heroes, whose extreme fragility on the verge of an iron indoctrination he reveals with sound and images.

Directed by Alexey Evstigneev · Written by Alexey Evstigneev

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