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Letter Never Sent

1960 · 97 min

A hypnotic, physically exhausting plunge into fire and ice, gorgeous and harrowing, where the wilderness dwarfs the desperate humans crawling through it.

Overview
Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • nature
  • isolation
  • obsession
  • death
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror4
Humour1
Realism8
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, adventure
Directed by
Mikhail Kalatozov
Written by
Valeri Osipov, Grigoriy Koltunov, Viktor Rozov
Starring
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Galina Kozhakina, Boris Kozhukhov
Music
Nikolai Kryukov
Cinematography
Sergei Urusevsky
Runtime
97 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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