Unsent Letter is a Soviet feature film drama based on the story of the same name by Valery Osipov . Production of the Mosfilm film studio in 1959.
Premiered on June 27, 1960.
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Mikhail Kalatozov |
| Author script | Grigory Koltunov , Valery Osipov , Victor Rozov |
| In the main cast | Innocent Smoktunovsky , Tatyana Samoilova , Vasily Livanov , Eugene Urban |
| Operator | Sergey Urusevsky |
| Composer | Nikolay Kryukov |
| Film company | The film studio " Mosfilm " |
| Duration | 97 minutes |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Tongue | |
| Year | 1959 |
| IMDb | ID 0053106 |
Summary
Initiation Intro :
This film is dedicated to those who are in any area of human activity, whether it’s the exploration of wild abandoned lands or a daring dash into space, those who walked and walk the difficult path of the first
The film tells about the tragic fate of a group of Soviet geologists and their guide, who went into the deep taiga in search of diamond deposits.
Cast
- Innocent Smoktunovsky - Konstantin Fedorovich Sabinin
- Tatyana Samoilova - Tanya
- Vasily Livanov - Andrey
- Evgeny Urbansky - conductor Sergey Stepanovich
- Galina Kozhakina - Vera, wife of Sabinin
- Boris Kozhukhov - episode (uncredited)
Camera crew
- Script by Grigory Koltunov , Valery Osipov , Victor Rozov
- Staged by Mikhail Kalatozov
- The main operator - Sergey Urusevsky
- Director - Bela Friedman
- Composer - Nikolay Kryukov
Filming
- The shooting took place in the taiga on the banks of the rivers Us and Yenisei [1] .
- During the filming of the film, Vasily Livanov caught a sore throat and plucked his voice (by the decision of Kalatozov, he voiced the role in the street in a strong wind and frost at −40 ° C), as a result of which his voice forever acquired the famous hoarse timbre [2] .
- In 1995, Francis Ford Coppola financed the restoration and rental of paintings in the United States.
- The film participated in the program of the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 , although the tragedy of the plot and the expressive means of the film, extreme for Soviet cinema, caused quite harsh criticism in the USSR from the press and government officials from culture.
Notes
Links
- About the film "Unsent Letter"
- The film "Unsent Letter" in the online movie theater "Mosfilm"
- The film "Unsent Letter" on the site Kino-Theater.ru
- Unsent Email on Internet Movie Database
- French movie poster