A Journey into Russia

Ten years ago, journalist Jens Muhling met Juri, a Russian television producer whose job it was to sell stories to TV stations in Germany, but who always maintained that "The true stories are more unbelievable than anything I could invent."

Ever since, Jens Muhling has been travelling through Russia in search of stories that appear too unbelievable to be true: a hermit from the Taiga who only recently found out that there was a world beyond the woods, a priest who ventures into the exclusion zone around Chernobyl to preach to those that stubbornly remain there, and many more.

Jens Muhling shows us a country whose customs, contradictions, absurdities, and attractions are still largely unknown beyond its borders.