Dead Souls

Name: Dead Souls
Released: 1969-12-10
Rating: 3.5

1969

Trailer

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

Status

Released

Original Title

Мёртвые души

Runtime

2h 30m

Original Language

RU

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Production Companies

Leningrad Television

Overview

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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