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Dead Souls

6.0 388 mins Comedy   Drama   History   1984
Gosteleradio USSR   Mosfilm  
Director(s): Mikhail Shveitser

Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov plans to buy the titles to “dead souls” and use them as collateral to obtain a large loan. He comes to a small provincial town and begins to proposition the local landowners. These landowners are revealed to be so petty and avaricious that not even Chichikov’s amazing offer can be worked to his advantage on them. Some stall, some refuse for no obvious reasons, some promise and then renege, and others want “in on the deal.” In the end, Chichikov, having concluded that the landowners are a hopeless lot, leaves for other regions.

Casts of Dead Souls

Aleksandr Trofimov

as Nikolai Gogol

Aleksandr Kalyagin

as Chichikov

Yuri Bogatyryov

as Manilov

Larisa Udovichenko

as Manilov's wife

Tamara Nosova

as Korobochka

Viktor Sergachyov

as Mizhuyev

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

as Sobakevich

Inna Churikova

as Lady, nice in every respect

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

as Lady, just nice

Aleksandr Novikov

as Poruchik

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