Searching for the Lost Pochta (2014)
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.
Director: Dmitry Zolotov
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Nikolai Izvolov as Self - Russian film historian |
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Sergey Kapterev as Self - Russian film historian |
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Alexander Taranzhin as Narrator |
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Georgiy Borodin as |
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David Robinson as |
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Natalya Nusinova as |
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Pyotr Bagrov as |
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Kevin Brownlow as |
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Patrick Loughney as |
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Paolo Cherchi Usai as |
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Paula Félix-Didier as |
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Yuriy Tsivyan as |
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Aleksandr Pozdnyakov as |
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Marina Sholpo as |
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Vladimir Opela as |
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Michal Bregant as |
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Natalya Kalantarova as |
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Naum Kleiman as |
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Sergei Lazaruk as |
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Dan Streible as |
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David Schwartz as |
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Aleksandar Saša Erdeljanović as |
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Fyodor Khitruk as Archive footage |
| Sound | Valeri Shishkin | Sound Engineer |
| Editing | Dmitry Zolotov | Editor |
| Visual Effects | Irina Seryogina | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Alisa Kostogarova | Animation |
| Visual Effects | Dmitry Zolotov | Animation Manager |
| Production | Aleksandr Gerasimov | Producer |
| Visual Effects | Darya Osipova | Animation |
| Writing | Sergey Kapterev | Writer |
| Writing | Nikolai Izvolov | Idea |
| Writing | Nikolai Izvolov | Writer |
| Directing | Dmitry Zolotov | Director |
| Camera | Valery Ryabin | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Igor Nazaruk | Sound |
| Editing | Nikolai Izvolov | Archival Footage Coordinator |