1972 · folklore · comedy · cossacks
The Lost Letter
Directed by Borys Ivchenko1h 19m1972
Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.
Our read: The Lost Letter (1972) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal folklore · comedy · cossacks entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured folklore / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- surreal
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