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..."
- Country : Soviet Union
- Genre : Comedy, Drama
- Studio : Leningrad Television
- Director : Aleksandr Belinsky
- Cast : Leonid Dyachkov, Igor Gorbachyov, Oleg Basilashvili, Klavdiya Fadeeva, Pavel Luspekayev, Yuriy Tolubeev