Propala Hramota
| Propala Hramota The Lost Letter |
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Cossack Vasyl (played by Ivan Mykolaichuk)
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| Directed by | Borys Ivchenko |
| Produced by | Dovzhenko Film Studios |
| Written by | Ivan Drach |
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Vasyl Simchych Ivan Mykolaichuk Mykhailo Holubovych Lidia Vakula Fedir Stryhun |
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Ukrainian folklore Ivan Mykolaichuk (arranged) |
| Cinematography | Vitaliy Zymovets |
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70 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union (Ukrainian SSR) |
| Language | Ukrainian |
The Lost Letter (Ukrainian: Пропала Грамота, translit. Propala Hramota, Russian: Пропавшая грамота, translit. Propavshaya gramota) is a 1972 Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Soviet and Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church by Nikolai Gogol from cycle Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.
Cossack Vasyl (Ivan Mykolaichuk) prepares himself for a mounted voyage to Peterburg, the capital of the Russian Empire. Vasyl carries a hramota (sealed official document) given to him by the hetman through his secretary, Pereverny-kruchenko, that is rumored to cost ten Poods of gold. Vasyl's wife sews the hramota into his hat and his father (Vasyl Symchych) gives him magic tobacco to repel evil and an advice to find a good co-journeyman.
The film depicts the adventures of Vasyl in sequences that are filled with Ukrainian culture, and shows Ukrainian cuisine, costumes, traditions, mystical and comedy-filled situations, anecdotes, and a plethora of obstacles which Vasyl must overcome. On his way together with an evil servant (chort) he comes to a river crossing where a ferry carries people from one side to another. There he finds his partner in arms, Andriy, a zaporozhian cossack. Further along the way, something happens to the papers when they stop at an inn to rest. When Vasyl and Andriy arrive in St. Petersburg, they hand over the hramota to the baroness von Likhtenberg who passes them to the empress. The documents do not carry any information and Vasyl has to leave without results.
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