SYNOPSIS

One winter day in 1934, Professor Vangengheim is arrested for sabotage, accused of being the organizer of a conspiracy and sent to the Gulag on the Solovki Islands. Convinced that what happened to him was a great misunderstanding for the regime, he hides the truth from his daughter Eleonora. He then sends her letters from the labor camp, in which he invents stories and riddles, pretending to be an explorer on a journey and preserving this fairy tale as long as possible.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Alexey Evstigneev

• Production

  Clémence Crépin-Neel

  Igor Courtecuisse