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”.

Directed & Written by Alexey Evstigneev
Production : MODERATO & MIMESIS
Distribution : MANIFEST

Credits
Executive Producers : Igor Courtecuisse, Clémence Crépin Neel
Foreign producer : Yanna Buryak
Editor : Catherine Aladenise
Line Producer : Marc Faye
Voice : Dmitry Nazarov
Production managers : Igor Courtecuisse, Clémence Crépin Neel
Sound Editor : Vivien Roche
Animation : Daria Dorofeeva, Iulia Voitova, Salomé Chatelain, Dmitry Cherednichenko
Foley artist : Jean-Baptiste Cornier
Grader : Valentin Goguet-Chapuis
Sound Mixer : Régis Diebold