The Overcoat (1926)
Overview
Bashmachkin, a lowly, impoverished government clerk in St. Petersburg, endures workplace mockery and dedicates his meager savings to buying a new winter coat.
Cast
Andrei Kostrichkin
Akakiy Bashmachkin
Antonina Yeremeyeva
Young lady 'heavenly creature'
Aleksei Kapler
'Not important person' / 'Very important person'
Sergei Gerasimov
Yaryzhka, card sharp
Emil Gal
Tailor
Yanina Zheymo
Tailor's assistant
Vladimir Lepko
Tailor Petrovich
Oleg Zhakov
Bashmachkin's coworker
Pyotr Sobolevsky
Official
Ksenia Denisova
Agrafena
Nikolay Gorodnichev
Pyotr Ptitsyn, landowner (uncredited)
Viktor Plotnikov
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