A letter that never arrived
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A letter that never arrived |
| Original title | Неотправленное письмо |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mikhail Kalatosov |
| script |
Valery Osipov Grigory Koltunov Viktor Rosov |
| music | Nikolai Kryukov |
| camera | Sergei Urusevsky |
| cut | N. Anikina |
| occupation | |
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A letter that never arrived ( Russian: Неотправленное письмо / Njeotpravljennoe pismo ) is a drama by the Soviet director Mikhail Kalatosow from 1959, produced by the Mosfilm film studios . The film took part in the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 and was released in GDR cinemas on December 16, 1960 under the title A Letter That Didn't Go Off ; a year later it was also shown in German cinemas (as a letter that never arrived ).
action
Three geologists, two men and a woman, and their companions are on a research expedition in the Siberian taiga to find diamond deposits. While Sabinin, the leader of the expedition, continues to write a letter to his wife at every opportunity, the other three have a tense relationship: Sergei, the companion, falls in love with Tanja, who is with Andrei, which remains no secret. The discovery of diamonds is like a relief, but the next day the situation changes from the outside: A forest fire breaks out and cuts them off from their camp. None of the four survived their odyssey through fire, rain and finally snow.
Reviews
“Mikhail Kalatosow, the director of 'When the Cranes Pull', captured the epic hero with obvious pleasure in visual pathos: the forest fire crackles mightily, and the silhouettes of the geologists stand out heroically from the natural panorama. As the leading actress, Tatiana Samoilova strains her famous Kyrgyz look, but the extreme simplicity of the characters condemns the film to sterility. "
“A film directed primarily to the effect of the beguilingly beautiful images. The plot remains rather pathetic and unbelievable. "
Web links
- A letter never arrived at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NEW IN GERMANY: A letter that never arrived (Soviet Union). In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1962 ( online - Feb. 7, 1962 ).
- ↑ A letter that never arrived. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .