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.

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
as Konstantin Sabinin

Tatyana Samoylova
as Tanya

Vasiliy Livanov
as Andrey

Evgeniy Urbanskiy
as Sergey Stepanovich

Galina Kozhakina
as Vera

Boris Kozhukhov
as
deepkino
Neotpravlennoye 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 blizzards, and diving into...