Searching for the Lost Pochta

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.

Country:

Russia

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

104 minutes

Year:

2014

Director:

Dmitry Zolotov

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Company:

Master-Film

Cast:
Nikolai Izvolov

Self - Russian film historian

Sergey Kapterev

Self - Russian film historian

Alexander Taranzhin

Narrator

Georgiy Borodin

David Robinson

Crew:
Nikolai Izvolov

Idea

Nikolai Izvolov

Writer

Dmitry Zolotov

Director

Valery Ryabin

Director of Photography

Igor Nazaruk

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