Dead Souls [Мёртвые души]
- Release Year
- 1969
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Drama
- Directed By
- Aleksandr Belinsky
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..."
