A furious Vladimir Putin has demanded that Western films be banned after he was left humiliated by an Oscar-winning documentary.

The dictator publicly raged at his culture minister, Olga Lyubimova, for her tardiness in enforcing new rules.

The move came as the Russian ruler, 73, was humiliated by Pavel Talankin’s Mr Nobody Against Putin, which this month won an Oscar as best documentary.

This film depicts a small-town Russian teacher who documents how ordinary people – especially children – are drawn into the Kremlin’s sinister wartime propaganda system.

Putin demanded of his minister: ‘Well, why are we just talking?

‘We ideologically allow in some completely stupid and unnecessary [films], and financially we don’t support our own producers.’

New curbs needed to be in place ‘as quickly as possible’, the Russian leader said.

He has now called for a quota system to heavily restrict foreign films.

The dictator publicly raged at his culture minister, Olga Lyubimova, for her tardiness in enforcing new rules

The Russian ruler, 73, was humiliated by Pavel Talankin’s Mr Nobody Against Putin, which this month won an Oscar as best documentary

This film depicts a small-town Russian teacher who documents how ordinary people – especially children – are drawn into the Kremlin’s sinister wartime propaganda system

Lyubimova, 45, claimed it was ‘complex’ but agreed to his demands after the embarrassing slapdown.

The despot’s rambling rant during a televised online meeting coincided with a court decision in Chelyabinsk to ban the distribution of Mr Nobody Against Putin, to ensure Russians cannot view the film.

The Central District Court upheld a request from the Russian state prosecutor’s office to have the documentary removed from three online video platforms.

This was ‘in the interests of an indefinite number of persons’, the court was told.

The prosecutor claimed the documentary gave a ‘negative attitude’ to Putin’s war against Ukraine and his government, and should be banned.

Small-town Russian school videographer Talankin, 35, won the Academy Award together with US filmmaker David Borenstein for the documentary, which chronicles pro-war patriotic lessons introduced in Russia’s schools under President Vladimir Putin amid Moscow’s Ukraine offensive. 

Talankin, who fled Russia with the smuggled footage and now openly opposes the war, was instructed to film the propaganda lessons by the school administration, eventually deciding to secretly team up with the US director. 

It comes a week after Russia condemned the documentary, saying it had featured children filmed without their parents’ consent, in what was Moscow’s first official reaction to the film scooping the prestigious award. 

Russia’s human rights council, a government body, said that ‘images of minors were used without obtaining the consent of their parents’ in the documentary.

It added that the footage was intended as an ‘internal record of school activities for educational use’, but was then used for commercial purposes.

The council said it requested that the Academy that awards the Oscars and the UN cultural agency UNESCO launch an investigation.

Moscow has not yet commented on the substance of the film. State-controlled media largely ignored the award.