The Lost Letter

The Lost Letter — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 31, 1945
• Runtime
• 43 min
• Genres
• Animation, Fantasy, Comedy, Family
• Director
• Zinaida Brumberg

The Lost Letter — Cast

Mikhail Yanshin Cossack Vasil (voice) Boris Livanov Dnieper cossack (voice) Sergei Martinson Witch (voice) Leonid Pirogov clerk (voice) Vasiliy Kachalov Narrator (voice)