12 minutes 10 seconds
France
2024

In 1934, Professor Vangengheim is condemned to the Gulag on the Solovki. As he pretends to be on a grand voyage of exploration, he crafts imaginative tales in letters to his daughter Eleonora, shielding her from the truth of his sentencing as a “traitor to the motherland”.

Director: Alexey Evstigneev
Writer: Alexey Evstigneev
Producer: Yanna Buryak, Clémence Crépin Neel, Igor Courtecuisse