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The Overcoat is a film of genre Animation directed by Iouri Norstein with Rolan Bykov
The Overcoat (1981)
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Add to a movie listThe Overcoat (Russian: Шине́ль, Shinyel) is an unfinished animated feature film that has been the main project of acclaimed Russian director and animator Yuriy Norshteyn since 1981. It is based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol with the same name.
Around 25 minutes were completed by 2004. The unfinished film has been shown publicly in several exhibitions of Norshteyn's work around the world and clips of it have been included in a few documentary films about Russian animation and culture.
On March 13, 2007, Norshteyn stated that he planned to release the first 30 minutes of the film with a soundtrack into theatres by the end of 2007. However, as of April 2015, the film remains unfinished, its production time of over thirty years is the longest for a motion picture in history.
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The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat. However, Norshteyn has said that "the cinematographer should not be interested in that which is described in detail - he should look to that which is skipped, to that which is implied but is not explicitly written. The break in the text is the most promising, the most alive place for cinema."Actors
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