Dead Souls (1969)

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..."

• Release Date: 1969-12-10
• Runtime: 2h 30min
• Production Company: Leningrad Television
• Production Country: Soviet Union
• Director: Aleksandr Belinsky