The Lost Letter (1972)

Original title

Пропала грамота

Directed by

Borys Ivchenko

Genre

comedy film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 19m

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man in 19th century Ukraine loses an important document. He goes on a journey through strange and supernatural encounters to get it back.

whimsicalfolksymusicaltragicomicadventurousnostalgicmischievousearthy

What happens

The Lost Letter (Ukrainian: «Пропала грамота», romanized: Propala hramota, Russian: «Пропавшая грамота», romanized: Propavshaya gramota) is a 1972 Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The film is based on the novella The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church by Nikolai Gogol from the 1832 cycle Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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