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Searching for the Lost Pochta (2014)

Directed by Dmitry Zolotov

Overview

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.

Length 104 minutes

Actors

Nikolai Izvolov | Sergey Kapterev | Alexander Taranzhin | Georgiy Borodin | David Robinson | Natalya Nusinova | Pyotr Bagrov | Kevin Brownlow | Patrick Loughney | Paolo Cherchi Usai | Paula Félix-Didier | Yuriy Tsivyan | Aleksandr Pozdnyakov | Marina Sholpo | Vladimir Opela | Michal Bregant | Natalya Kalantarova | Naum Kleiman | Sergei Lazaruk | Dan Streible | David Schwartz | Aleksandar Saša Erdeljanović | Fyodor Khitruk