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Dead Souls (1969)

Dead Souls (1969)

Drama Comedy TV Movie
Release Date: 1969, December 10
Directors: Aleksandr Belinsky
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Leningrad Television, Leningrad Television
Cast: Boris Lyoskin, Oleg Basilashvili, Aleksey Petrenko, Sergey Fedorov, Elena Markina, Svetlana Karpinskaya, German Orlov, Mikhail Danilov, Leonid Dyachkov, Aleksey Rozanov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Konstantin Adashevsky

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..."