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Shinel’
(The Cloak)
Also known as El Capote in Spain : [The Overcoat]
(1926) Soviet Union
B&W : [?] Seven? reels / 1921 metres
Directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg

Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin [Akaki Akakievich], Emil Gal [the clerk], Sergei Gerasimov, Andrei Kapler, Boris Shpis, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Antonia Yeremeyeva, Yanina Zhejmo, [?] Vsevelod I. Pudovkin?

[?] F.E.K.S. and/or Leningradkino? production. / Scenario by Yuri Tynyanov, from the short stories “The Overcoat” and “Nevskii Prospekt” by Nikolai Gogol. Art direction by Yevgeni Yenej. Cinematography by Andrei Moskvin and Yevgeni Mikhajlov. / Released 10 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 17 April 2012.

References: Bardèche-History pp. 174, 278; Limbacher-Feature p. 46; Youngblood-Soviet pp. 54, 96-97, 98, 167, 234, 267, 318 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.

 
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