Lost in Siberia is a 1991 film which was produced in co-production between England and Russia. It was shot entirely in Russia, either on location or at Mosfilm Studio. The postproduction was started at Mosfilm Studio and completed in London.

Ben Brahms, the Lithuanian producer, was looking for a way to transform the roubles of his various business ventures in Russia into hard currency. He also produced Assassin of the Tsar, a film starring Malcolm MacDowell and Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg Yankovsky

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky was a Soviet/Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals...

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The film follows Andrei Miller, an English archeologist played by Anthony Andrews

Anthony Andrews

-Life and career:Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes , a dancer, and Stanley Thomas Andrews, a musical arranger and musical conductor. He grew up in the North Finchley district of London...

, as he gets arrested. Mistaken for an English spy with the same name, he gets sent to a labor camp. A romance develops between him and the camp's doctor, which attracts the anger of the camp's chief. He gets sent to one of the infamous Kolyma

Kolyma

The Kolyma region is located in the far north-eastern area of Russia in what is commonly known as Siberia but is actually part of the Russian Far East. It is bounded by the East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Sea of Okhotsk to the south...

 labour camps. In an ambiguous ending, he is released and goes back to his pleasant life, or that is just a delusion that he haswhile dying of cold and hunger. It was directed by Aleksandr Mitta, who had directed many blockbusters in Russia and later emigrated to the United States.

The film was Britain's entry to the Cannes Festival's competition in 1991.