Dead Souls

Movie · 2h 30m

Starring Leonid Dyachkov, Igor Gorbachyov, Oleg Basilashvili, Klavdiya Fadeeva

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..."