Searching for the Lost Pochta

Overview

Travelogue of two film historians Nikolay Izvolov and Sergey Kapterev who visit world film archives around the globe in search of a lost sound version of one famous Soviet cartoon. It's "The Post" made by Mikhail Tsekhanovsky in 1929 and based on a poem by Samuil Marshak. At first "The Post" has been released in a silent form and later Tsekhanovsky remade it with experimental music and narration by Daniil Kharms. At that moment it was the first Soviet sound cartoon and it was a success all over the world. Russian film studies consider "The Post" to be of great importance and artistic value but unfortunately it's still lost. Only the silent version and the 1964 remake are still known and available.

Directed by Dmitry Zolotov

Top cast

Nikolai Izvolov

Self - Russian film historian

Sergey Kapterev

Self - Russian film historian

Alexander Taranzhin

Narrator

Georgiy Borodin

David Robinson

Natalya Nusinova

Pyotr Bagrov

Kevin Brownlow

Patrick Loughney

Paolo Cherchi Usai

Paula Félix-Didier

Yuriy Tsivyan

A

Aleksandr Pozdnyakov

M

Marina Sholpo

V

Vladimir Opela

M

Michal Bregant

N

Natalya Kalantarova

Naum Kleiman

S

Sergei Lazaruk

D

Dan Streible

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