Movie

Dead Souls (1969)

• December 10, 1969
• 2h 30m

• Comedy
• Drama
• TV Movie

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..."

Director

Aleksandr Belinsky

Writers

Roza Kopylova

Starring

Leonid Dyachkov, Igor Gorbachyov, Oleg Basilashvili