Hopelessly Lost (1973)

Original title

Совсем пропащий

Directed by

Georgiy Daneliya

Genre

tragicomedy, adventure film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy escapes his harsh home life by faking his own death and traveling down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave. Along the way they encounter a series of colorful characters and moral dilemmas.

lightheartedwhimsicaladventurouspoignantnostalgicobservantsincere

What happens

Hopelessly Lost (Russian: Совсем пропащий, romanized: Sovsem propashchiy) is a 1973 Soviet adventure film directed by Georgiy Daneliya who also adapted the script based on Mark Twain's 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Cinematography by Vadim Yusov. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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