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Leo ARNSHTAM
Лео АРНШТАМ
Leo ARNCHTAM
Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
USSR, 1941, 29mn
Black and white, fiction
Incident at a Telegraph Office
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Случай на телеграфе
Incident au bureau du télégraphe
Sluchay na telegrafe
Directed by :
Leo ARNSHTAM
(Лео АРНШТАМ),
Grigori KOZINTSEV
(Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ)
Writing credits :
Leo ARNSHTAM
(Лео АРНШТАМ)
Production :
Lenfilm
Release date in Russia :
11/08/1941
Site :
Kinopoisk
Plot synopsis
A strange figure appears among the people waiting in line to send a telegram. It is Napoleon. The telegraph clerk calculates the cost of the telegram addressed to Hitler in Berlin. The message is brief:
“Have tried, don’t recommend to”.
Selected in the following festivals or events :
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Zoom arrière. Cinémathèque de Toulouse
, Toulouse (France), 2015