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The Awakening is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

The Awakening
Directed by	Michael McCarthy
Screenplay by	Lawrence B. Marcus as Larry Marcus
Based on	original story by Nikolai Gogol
Produced by	Lance Comfort
Starring	Buster Keaton James Hayter
Cinematography	Kenneth Talbot
Music by	Bretton Byrd
Release dates	14 July 1954 (1954-07-14) (US) 29 February 1956 (1956-02-29) (UK)
Running time	26 minutes
Country	UK/US
Language	English

The Man is a first dramatic role of Buster Keaton. Fairbanks says, "It struck me as a beautiful idea — a novel idea — to put him in a straight part, because he was such a beautiful actor and a great talent. It worked out very well; he gave a marvelous performance".[1]

The original plot of Gogol's story is significantly changed. There are allusions to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four dystopia in the film.[2]

Cast

• Buster Keaton — The Man
• James Hayter — The Chief
• Carl Jaffe — The Tailor
• Lynne Cole — The Girl
• Geoffrey Keen — The Supervisor
• Christopher Lee — The Thief
• Douglas Fairbanks Jr. — Himself - Host

References

External links

• The Awakening at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] The Awakening (1954 film)

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[ru] Пробуждение (фильм, 1954)

«Пробуждение» (англ. The Awakening, 1954) — короткометражная драма из телесериала Дуглас Фэрбенкс представляет, сценарий которой основан на повести Гоголя «Шинель». В главной роли снялся Бастер Китон.

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