Letter Never Sent (film)

• Tatiana Samoilova: Tanja
• Evgeni Urbanski: Sergei
• Innokenty Smoktunowski: Sabinin
• Vasily Livanov Andrei

A letter that never arrived (Russian Неотправленное письмо / Njeotpravljennoe pismo ) is a drama of the Georgian director Mikhail Kalatosov from 1959, produced by the Soviet film studio Mosfilm. The film participated in the film festival of Cannes 1960. The film was released on 16 December 1960 under the title A letter not lacked in the cinema of the GDR; a year later he was shown (as a letter, which never arrived ) in the West German cinemas.

Action

Three geologists, two men and a woman are together with companions on a research expedition in the Siberian taiga, to make diamond deposits identified. While Sabinin, the leader of the expedition, on every occasion a letter to his wife continues to write, between the other three a strained relationship Sergei, the companion falls in love with Tanya, who with Andrei 's together but that remains a secret. The discovery of diamonds comes as a relief, but the next day suggests the situation from the outside in order: A forest fire breaks out and cuts them off from their camp. Their odyssey through fire, rain and snow finally survived, none of the four.

Reviews

" Mikhail Kalatosov, the director of, The Cranes Are Flying ', the epic adventure set with obvious pleasure of optical pathos in the picture: Powerful patters of forest fire, and heroic, the silhouettes of geologists lift off the natural panorama. As a leading actress Tatyana Samoilova overused their famous Kyrgyz view, but the extreme simplicity of the characters condemned the film to sterility. "

" A predominantly to the effect of hauntingly beautiful images through staged film. The plot is rather pathetic and unbelievable. "