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Adapted from a story by Nikolai Gogol, Rolan Bykov plays Akaky Akakyevich, a civil servant whose purchase of a new overcoat results in a more active social calendar. On the way home from a party, his coat is stolen, and Akaky dies of hypothermia ; shortly thereafter, his ghost returns to Earth to steal the coats of Sankt-Petersburg's most influential citizens.