4-star movie: The Overcoat
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carbonelThe Overcoat ("Shinel")
Director: Aleksey Batalov
1959
This is the story of a Russian clerk who, at the end of his career, scrimps and saves to buy a warm overcoat, only to have it stolen from him shortly after he acquires it. It's apparently a faithful adaptation of the Gogol story it's based on. I had to go back and watch the last section of the movie, because what I thought was a dying hallucination turned out to be a genuine haunting.
I'm thankful to the interlibrary loan system for finding me a copy of this movie on VHS. I had to go outside the MNLink system to the national system.
Director: Aleksey Batalov
1959
This is the story of a Russian clerk who, at the end of his career, scrimps and saves to buy a warm overcoat, only to have it stolen from him shortly after he acquires it. It's apparently a faithful adaptation of the Gogol story it's based on. I had to go back and watch the last section of the movie, because what I thought was a dying hallucination turned out to be a genuine haunting.
I'm thankful to the interlibrary loan system for finding me a copy of this movie on VHS. I had to go outside the MNLink system to the national system.
