The Lost Letter
Encyclopedia
The Lost Letter or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet cel-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm
studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol
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journeys to St. Petersburg in order to give a letter to the Tsarina. A series of adventures and obstacles stand in his way, but the Cossack overcomes them and fulfills his duty.
Soyuzmultfilm
Soyuzmultfilm is a Russian animation studio based in Moscow. Over the years it has gained international attention and respect, garnering numerous awards both at home and abroad. Noted for a great variety of style, it is regarded as the most influential animation studio of the former Soviet Union...
studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
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Plot
A CossackCossack
Cossacks are a group of predominantly East Slavic people who originally were members of democratic, semi-military communities in what is today Ukraine and Southern Russia inhabiting sparsely populated areas and islands in the lower Dnieper and Don basins and who played an important role in the...
journeys to St. Petersburg in order to give a letter to the Tsarina. A series of adventures and obstacles stand in his way, but the Cossack overcomes them and fulfills his duty.
Creators
| English | Russian | |
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| Directors | Lamis Bredis Zinaida Brumberg Valentina Brumberg |
Ламис Бредис Зинаида Брумберг Валентина Брумберг |
| Directors' assistants | K. Apestina Ye. Novosel'skaya Ye. Golovanova T. Fyodorova I. Kul'neva Ye. Shilova |
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| Scenario | Zinoviy Kalik Zinaida Brumberg Valentina Brumberg |
Зиновий Калик Зинаида Брумберг Валентина Брумберг |
| Art Directors | Yevgeniy Migunov Yevgeniy Migunov Evgeniy Tikhonovich Migunov was a Russian artist, animator and cartoonist.In the 1950s he worked in Soyuzmultfilm, but was fired over noncompliance with company's policy... Anatoliy Sazonov |
Евгений Мигунов Анатолий Сазонов |
| Decorative artists | B. Suteyeva G. Nevzorova V. Valeryanova I. Troyanova O. Gemmerling V. Rodzhero |
Б. Сутеева Г. Невзорова В. Валерйанова И. Троянова О. Геммерлинг В. Роджеро |
| Animators | Pyotr Repkin Y. Popov Aleksandr Belyakov Tatyana Fyodorova Boris Dyozhkin Nina Mindovskaya Nadezhda Privalova Tatyana Basmanova Gennadiy Filippov Lamis Bredis N. Fyodorova Roman Davydov Faina Yepifanova |
Пётр Репкин Ю. Попов Александр Беляков Татьяна Фёдорова Борис Дёжкин Нина Миндовская Надежда Привалова Татьяна Басманова Геннадий Филиппов Ламис Бредис Н. Фёдорова Роман Давыдов Фаина Епифанова |
| Camera Operators | Nikolai Voinov Yelena Petrova |
Николай Воинов Елена Петрова |
| Composer | Serafim Vasilenko | Серафим Василенко |
| Sound Operator | Nikolay Prilutskiy | Николай Прилуцкий |
| Sound Engineer | Valeriy Popov | |
| Artistic Administrator | Aleksandr Ptushko Aleksandr Ptushko Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko is a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR. Ptushko is frequently referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," due to his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis... |
Александр Птушко |
| Voice Actors | Sergei Martinson Leonid Pirogov Mikhail Yanshin Boris Livanov |
Сергей Мартинсон Леонид Пирогов Михаил Яншин Борис Ливанов |
| Narrator | Vasiliy Kachalov | Василий Качалов |
See also
- Propala HramotaPropala HramotaPropala hramota is a 1972 Soviet musical-comedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kiev. It is one of many films which were eventually banned by the Soviet censorship. It was broadcasted only in the early 1990th, after the fall of the Union. The movie is considered a pearl of the national Ukrainian...
- The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...ChurchThe Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...ChurchThe Lost Letter is the fourth Ukrainian tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.The story is told by an exuberant narrator, the old sexton Foma, who will return with another story, A Bewitched Place, in the next volume...
- History of Russian animationHistory of Russian animationThe History of Russian animation is very rich, but is so far a nearly unexplored field for Western film theory and history. As most of Russia's production of animation for film|cinema and television was created during Soviet times, it may also be referred to as the History of Soviet...
- List of animated feature films
- The Humpbacked Horse (1947 film) - the second cel-animated Soviet feature film
External links
- Propavshaya gramota at the Animator.ruAnimator.ruAnimator.ru is a Russian website chronicling the films, people and studios of the animation industry in Russia, the former Soviet Union and the CIS. It also includes a forum, a news block, a photo-gallery and an animators labour exchange...
(English and Russian) - Review of the film at Anipages Daily
- Propavshaya gramota at myltik.ru