Dead Souls

Based On the book by Nikolai Gogol

Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души, romanized: Myortvye dushi) is a 1984 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on Nikolai Gogol's epic poem of the same name. This story has been shared in many different interpretations. In 1930, author Mikhail Bulgakov was commissioned to write the first adaptation of this novel for the Soviet stage at the Moscow Art Theater. The 1984 miniseries was based on the 1960 film adaptation directed by Leonid Trauberg, which was inspired the Moscow Art Theater script.

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Director:

Mikhail Schweitzer

Cast:

Alexander Kalyagin, Larisa Udovichenko, Tamara Nosova, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Vyacheslav Nevinny

Genre:

Tragicomedy, Historical drama

Country:

Soviet Union

Language:

Russian