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Leo ARNSHTAM
Лео АРНШТАМ
Leo ARNCHTAM
Grigori KOZINTSEV
Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ
Grigori KOZINTSEV
USSR, 1941, 29mn
Black and white, fiction
Sluchay na telegrafe
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Случай на телеграфе
Incident at a Telegraph Office
Incident au bureau du télégraphe
Directed by :
Leo ARNSHTAM
(Лео АРНШТАМ),
Grigori KOZINTSEV
(Григорий КОЗИНЦЕВ)
Writing credits :
Leo ARNSHTAM
(Лео АРНШТАМ)
Companies :
Lenfilm
Release Date in Russia :
11/08/1941
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”.
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Zoom arrière. Cinémathèque de Toulouse
, Toulouse (France), 2015