The Overcoat

Year: 1959

Runtime: 75 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Aleksey Batalov

Drama

The film follows a low‑ranking government clerk whose cherished new overcoat is stolen, leaving him desperate to recover the only item that gives him dignity. Yet no one offers assistance, and his obsession with retrieving the coat haunts him even after his death, turning his grievance into a lingering, spectral lament.

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