The Lost Letter (1945 film)
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| Directed by | Lamis Bredis Zinaida Brumberg Valentina Brumberg |
| Produced by | Soyuzmultfilm |
| Written by |
Nikolai Gogol (story) Zinoviy Kalik |
| Starring |
Sergei Martinson Leonid Pirogov Mikhail Yanshin Boris Livanov |
| Narrated by | Vasiliy Kachalov |
| Music by | Serafim Vasilenko |
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43 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
The Lost Letter (Russian: Пропа́вшая гра́мота, Propavshaya gramota), or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the "grandmothers of the Russian animation", Brumberg sisters, and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet cel-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. The creators of the film managed to report an originality of national Ukrainian color and to recreate the magical, fantastic atmosphere peculiar to works of the writer. Also, for more reliable statement of dance of the Zaporozhets and the Cossack to Igor Moiseyev was involved.
Hot August, to the queen, with the hetman diploma send to the capital of the Cossack. On the road he strikes up acquaintance to the loose Zaporozhets. On a halt the new friend told that sold soul to a devil and waits for payment. At night the Cossack didn't become goes to bed, decided to look that will be farther. As darkened, to the place of a halt the devil came, took away the horse, and with her and the imperial diploma. It was necessary to look for to the messenger loss in the wood overflowed with evil spirit. For the morning the Cossack said goodbye to the acquaintance and, already without stops, rushed off to St. Petersburg.
In the mid-nineties Studio PRO Video (together with the best Soviet animated films) and the Soyuz studio let out videotapes with this animated film.
In the 2000th years the animated film is released on DVD by Soyuz studio.
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