Dead Souls

(1969)

★ 3.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama, телевизионный фильм

Year: 1969

Runtime: 150 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Александр Белинский

Cast: Леонид Дьячков, Игорь Горбачёв, Олег Басилашвили, Клавдия Фадеева, Павел Луспекаев, Юрий Толубеев, Александр Соколов, Константин Адашевский, Елена Маркина, Светлана Карпинская

Plot

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."