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Poster of Dead Souls

Dead Souls

Original title: Мёртвые души

1969 · 2 h 30 · Russia · Russian

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • TV Movie

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..."

Directed by
Aleksandr Belinsky
Written by
Roza Kopylova
Based on
Nikolai Gogol

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