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                  Photograph: Fotocollection, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna.
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            Shinel’ 
            (The Cloak) 
            Also known as El Capote in Spain : [The Overcoat] 
            (1926) Soviet Union 
            B&W : [?] Seven? reels / 1921 metres 
            Directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg
            Cast: Andrei Kostrichkin [Akaki Akakievich], Emil Gal [the clerk], Sergei Gerasimov, Andrei Kapler, Boris Shpis, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Antonia Yeremeyeva, Yanina Zhejmo, [?] Vsevelod I. Pudovkin? 
            [?] F.E.K.S. and/or Leningradkino? production. / Scenario by Yuri Tynyanov, from the short stories “The Overcoat” and “Nevskii Prospekt” by Nikolai Gogol. Art direction by Yevgeni Yenej. Cinematography by Andrei Moskvin and Yevgeni Mikhajlov. / Released 10 May 1926. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. 
            Drama. 
            Survival status: Print exists. 
            Current rights holder: (unknown) 
            Listing updated: 17 April 2012. 
            References: Bardèche-History pp. 174, 278; Limbacher-Feature p. 46; Youngblood-Soviet pp. 54, 96-97, 98, 167, 234, 267, 318 : Website-IMDb. 
            Home video: DVD. 
            
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