The Overcoat (1960)
Directed by Aleksey Batalov
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Satire, Heaven-Can-Wait Fantasies, Period Film |
Run Time - 78 min. |
Countries - Russia |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Jason Ankeny
Adapted from a story by Nikolai Gogol, Rolan Bykov plays Akakiy Akakiyevich, a civil servant whose purchase of a new overcoat results in a more active social calendar. On the way home from a party, his coat is stolen, and Akakiy dies of hypothermia; shortly thereafter, his ghost returns to Earth to steal the coats of St. Petersburg's most influential citizens.
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against-the-system, bureaucracy, death, ghost, hermit, office-worker, party, robbery, Russia
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