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.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Writers: Grigoriy Koltunov, Viktor Rozov, Valeri Osipov
Criterion ChannelNeotpravlennoye Pismo (Letter Never Sent) is survival cinema at its most visceral. Kalatozov and Urusevsky turn the Siberian wilderness into a living force, and the camera becomes a fifth member of the expedition—slipping through forests, collapsing with bodies, shaking in blizza…
