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192915 minSoviet Union
Animation

Synopsis

A letter sets out to reach the traveling writer Boris Zhitkov. Each stop brings it to a place he has already left, sending it onward across national borders. The journey finally leads back to Leningrad, where its recipient has returned.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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14:58
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Mikhail Tsekhanovsky · Public domain

DirectorsMikhail TsekhanovskyN. Timofeev

Inspirations

Mikhail Tsekhanovsky's animated film adapts Samuil Marshak's poem. Postal movement provides the structure, turning the repeated failure to catch a traveler into a tour across countries.

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