Bashmachkin, a lowly, impoverished government clerk in St. Petersburg, endures workplace mockery and dedicates his meager savings to buying a new winter coat.
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Cast
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Andrei Kostrichkin
Akakiy Bashmachkin
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Antonina Yeremeyeva
Young lady 'heavenly creature'
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Aleksei Kapler
'Not important person' / 'Very important person'
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Sergei Gerasimov
Yaryzhka, card sharp
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Lev Tolstoy
The Club of the Big Deed
Emil Gal
Tailor
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Fragment of an Empire
Cain and Artem
Yanina Zheymo
Tailor's assistant
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The Snow Queen
Cinderella
Vladimir Lepko
Tailor Petrovich
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Cipollino
Oleg Zhakov
Bashmachkin's coworker
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By the Lake
The White Fang
Tatyana Ventsel
Barber
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The Devil's Wheel
Мишки против Юденича
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Official
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The New Babylon
The Club of the Big Deed
Pavel Berezin
Official
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Мишки против Юденича
Ksenia Denisova
Agrafena
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Peasants
Grigori Kozintsev Director · Leonid Trauberg Director Yury Tynyanov Writer
First release May 10, 1926 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Production Leningradkino
Production
Lenfilm
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Leningradkino
Production
Russia · Russia
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Original title
Шинель
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Russia · May 10, 1926
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No release date listed for United States.
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