The Lost Letter

The first Soviet cel-animated feature film, based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. A messenger is tasked with delivering a letter to the Tsarina, which he tucks into his hat for safekeeping on the road. While resting at night, a band of demons steals the hat, and he must travel to Hell to retrieve it.

• Valentina BrumbergDirector
• Zinaida BrumbergDirector
• Valentina BrumbergWriter
• Zinaida BrumbergWriter
• Zinoviy KalikWriter
• Sergei VasilenkoOriginal Music Composer

• Mikhail YanshinCossack Vasil (voice)
• Boris LivanovDnieper cossack (voice)
• Sergei MartinsonWitch (voice)
• Leonid Pirogovclerk (voice)
• Vasiliy KachalovNarrator (voice)