Dead Souls (1969)
Original title: Мёртвые души
Dead Souls is a 1969 Russian-language comedy movie directed by Aleksandr Belinsky, with a running time of 2h 30m. It stars Leonid Dyachkov, Igor Gorbachyov and Oleg Basilashvili.
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..."
Cast
- Leonid Dyachkov as автор
- Igor Gorbachyov as Чичиков
- Oleg Basilashvili as Манилов
- Klavdiya Fadeeva as Коробочка
- Pavel Luspekayev as Ноздрев
- Yuriy Tolubeev as Собакевич
- Aleksandr Sokolov as Плюшкин
- Konstantin Adashevsky as Governor
- Elena Markina as Анна Григорьевна
- Svetlana Karpinskaya as Софья Ивановна
- Nikolai Boyarsky as Мижуев
- Yuri Bublikov