Dead Souls
- Movies
- 1969-12-10
- RU
- Released
- 3h 30m
- SU
- Comedy - Drama - TV Movie
Production
Leningrad Television
Storyline
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..."