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Letter Never Sent

Name: Letter Never Sent
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Released: 1960
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Galina Kozhakina

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

1960 · Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov · 97 min · Drama · Adventure · 10 frames

Crew

Written by: Viktor Rozov, Valeri Osipov, Grigoriy Koltunov
Cinematography: Sergei Urusevsky
Edited by: N. Anikina
Music: Nikolai Kryukov
Production design: David Vinitsky

Cast

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as Konstantin Sabinin
Tatyana Samoylova as Tanya
Vasiliy Livanov as Andrey
Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Sergey Stepanovich
Galina Kozhakina as Vera
Boris Kozhukhov

Production

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Studios: Mosfilm
Themes: human vs nature, diamond, wilderness, unrequited love, nature, geologist, siberia, forest fire

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