Released
Dead Souls
December 10 1969 (about 55 years ago)Rating
35
Based on
2 reviews
- Director: Aleksandr Belinsky
- Genres: Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
- Runtime: 2 h 30 m
- Country: Soviet Union
- Company: Leningrad Television
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..."
