Dead Souls

Overview

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..."

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 10, 1969

Original language

Russian

Production

Leningrad Television

Cast

Valentina Talanova,Yuri Kuranin,Igor Gorbachyov,Nikolai Boyarsky,Aleksey Rozanov,Leonid Dyachkov,Boris Ryzhukhin,Lyudmila Shelentsova,Tamara Konovalova,Yuriy Tolubeevand 24 more

Director

Aleksandr Belinsky

Writer

Roza Kopylova,Nikolai Gogol

Cinematography

Mikhail Filippov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0844715