Dead Souls
Movie| Title | Мёртвые души |
| User score | 0 |
| Release date | Dec 10, 1969 |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Director | Aleksandr Belinsky |
| Production country | Soviet Union |
| Production companies | Leningrad Television |
| Run time | 150 min. |
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..."
