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Producer(s):
ARTE FRANCE, Elephant
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Territories:
Worldwide (except Italy).
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Production year:
2019
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Language(s):
German, French
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Rights:
TV, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
In the outer reaches of Siberia, the frozen shores of Lake Baikal are swept by a bitter wind. Those particularly hostile conditions inspired the Russian power to deport its enemies there from the 16th century onwards.
There, these exiles – from religious minorities and Russian intellectual circles – build villages, develop their own culture and spread their ideas as far as Irkutsk; the city was soon nicknamed the Siberian Paris.