Underplayed Gems

The Lost Letter (1972)

The Lost Letter poster
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
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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.

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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)

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