The Lost Letter (1945 film) (1945)

Original title

Пропавшая грамота

Directed by

Lamis Bredis, Valentina Brumberg, Zinaida Brumberg

Genre

fantasy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

43 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Cossack must deliver a lost letter through a magical and dangerous journey across the Ukrainian countryside. The film adapts a story by Nikolai Gogol with animated dancing and folk elements.

whimsicalfantasticalfolksylivelyhistoricalanimatedmusicalnostalgic

What happens

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 traditionally-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the 1832 story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. The creators of the film managed to convey national Ukrainian color and to recreate the magical, fantastic atmosphere peculiar to works of the writer. Also, for a more realistic style of dance in the Zaporozhets and the Cossack, Igor Moiseyev was involved. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Kashchey the Deathless (1945)
• May Night (1938)
• Beloved Beauty (1959)
• The Night Before Christmas (1951)
• Go There, Don't Know Where (1966)
• Teremok (1945)
• Fire, Water, and Brass Pipes (1968)
• Shadow (1971)