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The Lost Letter (1911 Film)
The Lost Letter or A Lost Letter may refer to: * The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church, a tale from the collection ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka'' by Nikolai Gogol * ''The Lost Letter'' (1945 film), a Soviet animated film * ''The Lost Letter'' (1972 film), a Soviet musical-tragicomedy film * ''A Lost Letter'' (1953 film), a Romanian historical comedy film {{DEFAULTSORT:Lost Letter, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Tale Told By The Sexton Of The N
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Letter (1945 Film)
''The Lost Letter'' (russian: Пропа́вшая гра́мота, ''Propavshaya gramota''), or ''A Disappeared Diploma'', is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the "grandmothers of the Russian animation", Brumberg sisters, and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet traditionally-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the 1832 story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. The creators of the film managed to convey national Ukrainian color and to recreate the magical, fantastic atmosphere peculiar to works of the writer. Also, for a more realistic style of dance in the Zaporozhets and the Cossack, Igor Moiseyev was involved. Plot On a hot August day, a messenger sends the Cossack to the capital with the diploma, meant for the queen, tucked away under his hat. On the road he strikes up an acquaintanceship with a loose Zaporozhet. During a break in their journey, the new friend told the Cossack that he sold his soul to a devil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lost Letter (1972 Film)
''The Lost Letter'' ( uk, Пропала грамота, Propala hramota, russian: Пропавшая грамота, Propavshaya gramota) is a 1972 Ukrainian-Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella '' The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church'' by Nikolai Gogol from the 1832 cycle ''Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka''. Synopsis Cossack Vasyl (Ivan Mykolaichuk) prepares himself for a mounted voyage to Peterburg, the capital of the Russian Empire. Vasyl carries a hramota (sealed official document) given to him by the hetman through his secretary, Pereverny-Kruchenko, that is rumored to cost ten Poods of gold. Vasyl's wife sews the hramota into his hat, and his father (Vasyl Symchych) gives him magic tobacco to repel evil and advice to find a good co-journeyman. The film depicts the adventures of Vasyl in sequences that are filled with Ukrainian cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
