| The Overcoat | |
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| Directed by | Grigori Kozintsev Leonid Trauberg |
| Written by | Yury Tynyanov Nikolai Gogol |
| Starring | Andrei Kostrichkin Aleksei Kapler Boris Shpis Pyotr Sobolevsky Yanina Zhejmo |
| Cinematography | Yevgeni Mikhailov Andrei Moskvin |
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Running time | 65 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Silent film (Russian intertitles) |
The Overcoat (Russian: Шинель, romanized: Shinel) is a 1926 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, based on the Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".[1]
Charlie Chaplin was invited to play the lead role, but as an alien resident in the United States, was threatened by US government officials with being refused entry back into the country if he made the film and it contained Soviet propaganda.[2]
- ^ "Шинель". VokrugTV.
- ^ "Russian Offer to Charlie". Nottingham Evening Post. 23 January 1926. Retrieved 29 December 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.