Letter Never Sent (film)

Letter Never Sent Russian , translit.Neotpravlennoye pismo, sometimes translated as The Unsent Letter or The Unmailed Letter is a 1959 Soviet adventure drama film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov and starring Tatyana Samojlova. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.

A guide and three geologists head to the boreal forest of central Siberia. After much strenuous effort and nearly running out of food, they succeed in finding diamonds in Bolshaya Zemlya. Before they can return, they are trapped by a forest fire that cuts them off from the canoe where their supplies are kept. Now the battle is to survive.Criterion Collection released the film in DVD and Bluray Disc as Letter Never Sent according to Slant Magazine, having started with pristine materials, Criterions blueribbon authoring is, of course, flawless, as is their uncompressed monaural track, which is as dense with human lamentations as mother natures libidinous, murderous roar they note that the barebones single disc is accompanied only by an essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova, who does a fine job establishing the films historical context. ........

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