The Overcoat
Шинель
1926 · 63 min · SU
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Kozintsev and Trauberg, 1926, Leningrad: Gogol's clerk and Gogol's Nevsky Prospect, folded into one FEKS picture about a man and a coat. Andrei Kostrichkin is Bashmachkin. The city is expressionist, the coat is a character, the ending is Gogol's cruelty intact. Factory of the Eccentric Actor, before they went historical. It is the Soviet avant-garde doing a nineteenth-century short story as if the story had been waiting for montage.
Drama
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1926 · Source: All soviet movies on RVISION
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Cast
Principal players
Andrei Kostrichkin
Akakiy Bashmachkin
Antonina Yeremeyeva
Young lady 'heavenly creature'
Aleksei Kapler
'Not important person' / 'Very important person'
Sergei Gerasimov
Yaryzhka, card sharp
Emil Gal
Tailor
Yanina Zheymo
Tailor's assistant
Vladimir Lepko
Tailor Petrovich
Oleg Zhakov
Bashmachkin's coworker
T
Tatyana Ventsel
Barber
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Official
P
Pavel Berezin
Official
Ksenia Denisova
Agrafena
N
Nikolay Gorodnichev
Pyotr Ptitsyn, landowner (uncredited)
A
Alexandra Trishko
Lady with dog (uncredited)
V
Viktor Plotnikov
Police officer (uncredited)
