The Overcoat

The Overcoat

1997 · 81 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, TV Movie

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.

Directed by Nicholas Triandafyllidis · Written by Evgenia Liroudia

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