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Safy Nebbou Safy Nebbou (born 27 April 1968) is a French actor and director. Life and career Nebbou was born on 27 April 1968 in Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France to a German mother and an Algerian father. He is the brother of actor Mehdi Nebbou. He ...

, producer = Philip Boëffard
Christophe Rossignon , screenplay = Safy Nebbou

David Oelhoffen David Oelhoffen (born 1968) is a French film director and screenwriter. His debut feature '' In Your Wake'' premiered in the International Critics' Week of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. His next film was ''Far from Men'' from 2014, which is base ...

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Raphaël Personnaz Raphaël Personnaz (born 23 July 1981) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films since 1998. He was awarded the Prix Patrick Dewaere in 2013. Personal life Born 23 July 1981 in France, his father was a furniture designer and hi ...

, music =

Ibrahim Maalouf Ibrahim Maalouf ( ar, ابراهيم معلوف, ; born 5 November 1980 in Beirut) is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, producer, arranger, and composer. In 2022, he became the first Lebanese instrumentalist nominated at the Grammy Awards for his albu ...

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Gilles Porte Gilles Porte (born 11 May 1965) is a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and assistant cameraman. He is a member of société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD), of société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SA ...

, editing = Anna Riche , studio = Nord-Ouest Films

France 3 Cinéma France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services providing ...

Zéphyr Productions , distributor = Paname Distribution , released = , runtime = 105 minutes , country = France , language = French
Russian , budget = $4 million , gross = $1.9 million ''In the Forests of Siberia'' (original title: ''Dans les forêts de Sibérie'') is a 2016 French film directed by

and adapted by Nebbou and

from

Sylvain Tesson Sylvain Tesson (born 26 April 1972) is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are '' The Consolations of the F ...

's 2011 book '' The Consolations of the Forest''. It stars

Plot

To satisfy a need for freedom, the French media-director Teddy decides to leave the noise of the world, and settles alone in a cabin on the frozen shores of

Lake Baikal Lake Baikal (, russian: Oзеро Байкал, Ozero Baykal ); mn, Байгал нуур, Baigal nuur) is a rift lake in Russia. It is situated in southern Siberia, between the federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Repu ...

. One night, lost in the

blizzard A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds and low visibility, lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically at least three or four hours. A ground blizzard is a weather condition where snow is not falling b ...

, he is rescued by Aleksei, a Russian murderer on the run, who has been hiding in the

Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...

n forest for several years. Between these two men, who are opposed to each other, friendship will be born as sudden as essential.

Cast

as Teddy *

Yevgeny Sidikhin Yevgeny Vladimirovich Sidikhin (russian: Евге́ний Влади́мирович Сиди́хин) is a Russian film and theater actor and television presenter. Early life and education Sidikhin was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet ...

as Aleksei

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* 2016 films 2010s buddy drama films Drama films based on actual events 2010s French-language films 2010s Russian-language films French buddy drama films Films about friendship Films based on non-fiction books Films set in forests Films set in Siberia Films directed by Safy Nebbou 2010s survival films French survival films 2016 drama films 2016 multilingual films French multilingual films 2010s French films Films with screenplays by David Oelhoffen {{2010s-drama-film-stub

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