Poster

The Overcoat

  • Release info:
    The.overcoat.1959.EN
  • A commentary by
    Beringen1
  • 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.