Academy Award winner's Oscar goes missing after blocked from taking it on flight
Summary
Oscar winner Pavel Talankin was stopped by airport security at New York’s JFK Airport and forced to check his Academy Award statuette as luggage. When he arrived in Germany, the Oscar was missing, and the airline Lufthansa is conducting a search to find it.Key Facts
- Pavel Talankin won an Academy Award for his documentary "Mr Nobody Against Putin."
- At JFK Airport, security said the Oscar could be used as a weapon and made him check it in.
- Lufthansa packed the Oscar carefully in a box for the checked luggage compartment.
- When Talankin landed in Germany, his Oscar had disappeared.
- Lufthansa said they are urgently searching for the missing award.
- Talankin often travels with his Oscar to events and screenings and has not had issues before.
- The documentary exposes war propaganda in Russian schools after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
- Talankin now lives in exile in Europe for his safety; Russia has banned the documentary claiming it promotes extremism.
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