Lost in Siberia

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Audience Member ?????? ?????, ?? ???? ??????? ????????? ? ???? ????? ???. ? ??? ???????. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Zeitverschwendung... Mann muss arbeitsbedingt nach Sibirien und findet dort Liebe und Spiritualitaet - oder einfach ein besseres Leben als bisher (alleine und halb in midlife crisis) Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member In this fish-out-water comedy, divorced garment production manager, Mattias (Joachim Król) finds himself in Keremova, Siberia to establish a new logistics line for his company's Russian subsidiary. Naturally, Mattias finds the subsidiary is made up of little more than an oversized Russian lady and her family who are not particularly amenable to being instructed how to do logistics by a German ("Hitler Kaputt!" is one of the favourite lines of the Russians). All goes sort-of to plan until Mattias falls for a traditional throat-singer, Sayana, and pursues her almost literally to the ends of the earth. In many ways, Lost in Siberia feels like a film that should be French. In fact, I was almost waiting for Gérard Depardieu to pop up, considering he is now a Russian citizen (and Putin acolyte). Perhaps its my studies in political economy, but I couldn't help but view this film through the prism of the current economic and political climate. Germany is a key foreign investor in Russia and one of the few western states not to endlessly chastise Russia for its human rights record. Germany needs Russia's gas and oil (former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder is chairman of the board of Nord Stream AG, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom) and Russia needs Germany's currency, even if it is the Euro. The audience is constantly reminded of Russia's former greatness, being told Keremova is the home town of Soviet cosmonaut and first man to walk in space, Alexey Leonov. This is a country where its citizens are still getting used to their diminished place in the post-Cold War order and the last thing they need is a German coming in and telling them how to business. Mattias is a divorced, materialistic German who goes to Russia to teach them his methods, but instead he finds something greater, something transcendental. It's all a bit hackneyed and a bit simple to imbue strange and foreign things with mystical otherness, but it does the job. Mattias's journey may be somewhat predictable, but it's certainly one worth taking and it is quite a beautiful reminder of the diversity and culture in every corner of the world. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Entertaining quirky movie about an uptight German systems analyst who goes to Siberia on a contract and finds his destiny amongst a shamanistic tribe of aborigines. A type of German "Local Hero". Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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