The Lost Letter

The Lost Letter Russian , Propavshaya gramota, or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the grandmothers of the Russian animation, Brumberg sisters, and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet celanimated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Authors of the movie managed to report an originality of national Ukrainian color and to recreate the magical, fantastic atmosphere peculiar to works of the writer. Also, for more reliable statement of dance of the Zaporozhets and the Cossack to Igor Moiseyev was involved.

In the midnineties Studio PRO Video together with the best Soviet animated films and the Soyuz studio let out videotapes with this animated film.

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