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