The Lost Letter

The first Soviet cel-animated feature film, based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. A messenger is tasked with delivering a letter to the Tsarina, which he tucks into his hat for safekeeping on the road. While resting at night, a band of demons steals the hat, and he must travel to Hell to retrieve it.

Cast

Mikhail Yanshin

Cossack Vasil (voice)

Boris Livanov

Dnieper cossack (voice)

Sergei Martinson

Witch (voice)

Leonid Pirogov

clerk (voice)

Vasiliy Kachalov

Narrator (voice)