Russian director Pavel Talankin‘s missing Oscar statuette for “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” has been found, a spokesperson for airline Lufthansa told the BBC Friday.
The Oscar went missing on Wednesday after Talankin, who co-directed the documentary with David Borenstein, was stopped from taking it on board a plane board for Germany by airport security officials at New York’s John F Kennedy airport. The agents had argued that the statuette could be used as a weapon and it would have to go in the hold. When Talankin arrived in Germany the Oscar was gone.
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