One of the most acknowledged film interpretations of classic short story "The Overcoat" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol, describing a fate of a "small person". The tragicomic tale of the government clerk Akakiy Akakievich and his ill-fated overcoat unfolds on the snowy streets of Leningrad in winter, providing unique historic footage of the city in the post-Revolutionary period.

The Overcoat (1926) movie

Genres: Drama, Silent film
Production Co: Leningradkino

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writing Credits: Nikolai Gogol (novel), Yuri Tynyanov
Cinematography by Yevgeni Mikhajlov, Andrei Moskvin

Cast:
Andrei Kostrichkin as Akakiy Akakievich Bashmachkin
Antonina Yeremeyeva as “Heavenly Creature”
Sergei Gerasimov as Drunkard
Alexei Kapler as Unimportant Person, Very Important Person
Vladimir Lepko as Tailor
Yanina Zheimo as Tailor’s apprentice