The Lost Letter (Ukrainian: Пропала грамота, romanized: Propala hramota, Russian: Пропавшая грамота, romanized: Propavshaya gramota) is a 1972 Ukrainian-Soviet musical-tragicomedy film by Dovzhenko Film Studios in Kyiv. The movie is considered a pearl of Ukrainian cinema. The film is based on the novella The Lost Letter: A Tale Told by the Sexton of the N...Church by Nikolai Gogol from the 1832 cycle Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.