Dead Souls
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..."
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Dead Souls
- Overview
- Cast
- Crew
Status
Released
Release Date
Dec 10, 1969
Runtime
2h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Original Title
Мёртвые души
Production Companies
Leningrad Television
Director
Aleksandr Belinsky
Description
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..."
