The Overcoat (1926 film)
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The Overcoat is a 1926 Soviet film directed by Grigori Kozintsev
and Leonid Trauberg
, based on Nikolai Gogol
stories "Nevsky Prospekt
" and "The Overcoat
".
Grigori Kozintsev
Grigori Mikhaylovich Kozintsev was a Jewish Ukrainian, Soviet Russian theatre and film director. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1964.He studied in the Imperial Academy of Arts...
and Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Trauberg
Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg was a Jewish Ukrainian Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed 17 films between 1924 and 1961 and was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941.-Filmography:* The Adventures of Oktyabrina ...
, based on Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was a Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist and novelist.Considered by his contemporaries one of the preeminent figures of the natural school of Russian literary realism, later critics have found in Gogol's work a fundamentally romantic sensibility, with strains of Surrealism...
stories "Nevsky Prospekt
Nevsky Prospekt (story)
Nevsky Prospect is a short story by Nikolai Gogol, written between 1831 and 1834, and published in 1835.- Summary :Influenced strongly by the Sentimental movement, the protagonist of "Nevsky Prospekt" is a pathetic and insignificant romantic, the narrator is chatty and unreliable, and realism...
" and "The Overcoat
The Overcoat
"The Overcoat" is the title of a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, thus spawning Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous quote: "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'." The story has been...
".
Cast
- Andrei KostrichkinAndrei KostrichkinAndrei Aleksandrovich Kostrichkin was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1925 and 1971.-Selected filmography:* Mishki versus Yudenich * The Devil's Wheel * The Overcoat...
- Akaki Akakievich - Antonina Yeremeyeva
- Sergei Gerasimov - Yaryzhka
- Aleksei KaplerAleksei KaplerAleksei Yakovlevich Kapler ;Kiev, was a Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and writer. He was known as an anchor and director of the TV program Kinopanorama...
- Boris ShpisBoris Shpis-Biography:Boris Shpis was a stage designer who joined Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg's Factory of the Eccentic Actor in 1924 and worked as assistant director in all their films up to and including The Club of the Big Deed. When in 1927 Kozintsev and Trauberg decided not to continue work on...
- Pyotr SobolevskyPyotr SobolevskyPyotr Stanislavovich Sobolevsky was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1926 and 1973.-Biography:Pyotr Sobolevsky was born on 22 May 1904 in Tomsk. Studied in the Factory of the Eccentric Actor under Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, in 1932 graduated from Leningrad...
- Yanina ZhejmoYanina ZhejmoYanina Boleslavovna Zhejmo was a Soviet actress. She appeared in more than 30 films between 1925 and 1955.-Filmography:* Mishki versus Yudenich * The Devil's Wheel * The Overcoat * Somebody Else's Coat...
- Oleg Zhakov