{"id":931078,"date":"2026-05-01T16:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/931078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:48:28","slug":"mr-nobody-against-putin-oscar-lost-on-flight-found-by-lufthansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/931078\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Mr. Nobody Against Putin&#8217; Oscar Lost on Flight Found by Lufthansa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLufthansa has found the Oscar statuette that went missing after Pavel Talankin, co-director and subject of the Academy Award-winning\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/mr-nobody-against-putin-review-documentary-1236486252\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Nobody Against Putin<\/a>, was forced to check the trophy in by TSA agents for a return flight to Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cThe Oscar statue has now been located and is safely in our care in Frankfurt,\u201d Lufthansa said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter on Friday. The airline added it was in contact with Talankin to reunite him with his lost Oscar \u201cas quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTalankin, who was flying home to Europe out of New York\u2019s JFK airport earlier this week, claimed airport security refused to let him take his statue on board as a carry-on. The award was packed into a small box and put at the bottom of the aircraft. When Talankin arrived in Frankfurt, he was told the little gold statue had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/airline-lost-oscar-mr-nobody-against-putin-director-says-1236581253\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/airline-lost-oscar-mr-nobody-against-putin-director-says-1236581253\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gone missing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLufthansa also apologized to Talankin for the missing Oscar. \u201cWe sincerely regret the inconvenience caused and have apologized to the owner. The careful and secure handling of our guests\u2019 belongings is of the utmost importance to us,\u201d the airline said in its statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tTalankin brought the Oscar back to Europe after the Academy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_awards_1\" data-tag=\"awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Awards<\/a> ceremony on March 15, taking it as a carry-on in his in-flight bag and without incident. He returned to the U.S. in April, again taking the statue on board as a carry-on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut after the return journey, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/mr-nobody-against-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Nobody Against Putin<\/a>\u00a0co-director David Borenstein posted the story of the lost Oscar on Instagram, complete with a before photo showing Talakin with the Oscar hanging in a mesh bag hooked to his belt and an after photo of the lost baggage slip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe tagged Lufthansa, asking for help in retrieving the missing Oscar, leading to its location later in the week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lufthansa has found the Oscar statuette that went missing after Pavel Talankin, co-director and subject of the Academy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[14010,11457,8226,77,522,3943,240387,14673,153075,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-931078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-documentaries","10":"tag-documentary","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-mr-nobody-against-putin","15":"tag-oscars","16":"tag-oscars-2026","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116500346077861171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}