The Lost Letter (1945 film)

For the short story by Nikolai Gogol, see The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church. For the Ukrainian film by Borys Ivchenko based on Gogol's story, see Propala Hramota.

The Lost Letter
Directed by	Lamis Bredis Zinaida Brumberg Valentina Brumberg
Written by	Nikolai Gogol (story) Zinoviy Kalik
Produced by	Soyuzmultfilm
Starring	Sergei Martinson Leonid Pirogov Mikhail Yanshin Boris Livanov
Narrated by	Vasiliy Kachalov
Music by	Serafim Vasilenko
Release date	1945 (1945)
Running time	43 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Lost Letter (Template:Lang-ru, 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 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. 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.

Plot

Hot August, to the queen, with the hetman diploma send to the capital of the Cossack. On the road he strikes up acquaintance to the loose Zaporozhets. On a halt the new friend told that sold soul to a devil and waits for payment. At night the Cossack didn't become goes to bed, decided to look that will be farther. As darkened, to the place of a halt the devil came, took away the horse, and with her and the imperial diploma. It was necessary to look for to the messenger loss in the wood overflowed with evil spirit. For the morning the Cossack said goodbye to the acquaintance and, already without stops, rushed off to St. Petersburg.

Creators

	English	Russian
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
Scenario	Zinoviy Kalik Zinaida Brumberg Valentina Brumberg	Зиновий Калик Зинаида Брумберг Валентина Брумберг
Art Directors	Yevgeniy Migunov 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	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

Video

In the mid-nineties Studio PRO Video (together with the best Soviet animated films) and the Soyuz studio let out videotapes with this animated film.

In the 2000th years the animated film is released on DVD by Soyuz studio.

See also

• Propala Hramota
• The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church
• History of Russian animation
• List of animated feature films
• The Humpbacked Horse (1947 film) - the second cel-animated Soviet feature film

External links

• Propavshaya gramota at IMDb
• «The Lost Letter» on YouTube (Russian)
• Propavshaya gramota at the Animator.ru (English and Russian)
• Review of the film at Anipages Daily
• Propavshaya gramota at myltik.ru Template:Ru icon