Oscar statuette for 'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' goes missing on flight

By Matthias Williams

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters) - TheOscar statuettebelonging to Pavel Talankin, the Russian director who won best documentary this year for 'Mr. ‌Nobody Against Putin', has gone missing after he was forced to ‌check the award into hold luggage on a flight from New York to Germany, his co-director said.

Talankin ​was due to fly from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Frankfurt on German carrier Lufthansa. But Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents told him that the 8.5 lb (3.8 kg) statuette posed a potential security threat, his co-director David Borenstein said on Thursday.

"At ‌the airport, a TSA agent ⁠stopped him and said the Oscar could be used as a weapon," Borenstein said on Instagram.

"Pavel didn’t have a bag to ⁠check it in, so the TSA put the Oscar in a box and sent it to the bottom of the plane," he said, posting a series of pictures, ​including of ​the box.

"It never arrived in Frankfurt."

Responding to ​Borenstein's Instagram post, Lufthansa said it ‌was taking the matter seriously.

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"We will do everything we can to find the Oscar as fast as possible and have already escalated this," it said.

Lufthansa did not immediately respond to a request for further comment on Friday, which is a public holiday in Germany.

Speaking to the online magazine Deadline.com after arriving in Germany on ‌Thursday, Talankin said it was "completely baffling how ​they consider an Oscar a weapon."

On previous flights ​on various airlines, he had flown ​with it "in the cabin, and there never was any kind ‌of problem," he told the outlet.

Talankin ​and Borenstein's documentary used ​two years of footage that Talankin recorded at a school where he worked in Russia's Chelyabinsk region, to show how students were exposed to ​pro‑war messaging.

The 35-year-old Talankin, ‌who fled Russia in 2024, has defended the film as a record ​for posterity to show how "an entire generation became angry and aggressive".

(Reporting ​by Matthias Williams; Editing by Kate Mayberry)

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