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The Overcoat (1926) poster

1926 · drama · silent · literary

The Overcoat

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg1h 3m1926

Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".

Our read: The Overcoat (1926) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive drama · silent · literary entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.

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Cast
Andrei KostrichkinAntonina YeremeyevaAleksei KaplerSergei GerasimovEmil Gal
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Heavy, measured, measured drama / silent, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.

ElsewhereIMDb6.6394TMDB5.023
  • heavy
  • measured
  • inventive
  • bleak
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DNA · twelve axes

How The Overcoat feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want a classic Soviet silent tragedy of a poor clerk's small dignity destroyed.”

ends devastatingit stays with yousteady all the waygrips by minute 14attention 4/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
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