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Dead Souls 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. This story was also adapted as an opera in the 1980s as an American-Soviet production that first opened in Boston. The first cinematic interpretation of this work was directed by Pyotr Chardynin in 1909.
Original Release
03/30/1989
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aleksandr Trofimov | avtor Nikolay Gogol |
Aleksandr Kalyagin | Pavel Chichikov |
Yuriy Bogatyryov | Manilov |
Larisa Udovichenko | Manilova |
Vitaliy Shapovalov | Nozdrev |
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy | Sobakevich |
Aleksey Zaytsev | Selifan |
Vsevolod Sanaev | Ivan Grigoryevich - predsedatel palaty |
Viktor Shulyakovsky | Gubernator |
Aleksey Safonov | Serger Avdeyevich prokuror |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Episode #1.1 | Thursday, 30 March 1989 |
2 | Episode #1.2 | Tuesday, 20 November 1984 |
3 | Episode #1.3 | Wednesday, 21 November 1984 |
4 | Episode #1.4 | Thursday, 22 November 1984 |
5 | Episode #1.5 | Friday, 23 November 1984 |
Directors
Writers
Nikolay Gogol, Mikhail Shvejtser
Cast
Name | Character |
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Aleksandr Trofimov | avtor Nikolay Gogol |
Aleksandr Kalyagin | Pavel Chichikov |
Yuriy Bogatyryov | Manilov |
Larisa Udovichenko | Manilova |
Vitaliy Shapovalov | Nozdrev |
Vyacheslav Nevinnyy | Sobakevich |
Aleksey Zaytsev | Selifan |
Vsevolod Sanaev | Ivan Grigoryevich - predsedatel palaty |
Viktor Shulyakovsky | Gubernator |
Aleksey Safonov | Serger Avdeyevich prokuror |
Inna Makarova | Gubernatorsha |
Valeriy Zolotukhin | Ivan Andreyevich pochtmeyster |
Yuriy Volyntsev | Aleksey Ivanovich pochtmeyster |
Lev Polyakov | Vitse-gubernator |
Igor Kashintsev | Ivan Lukich |
Evgeniy Danchevskiy | Gorodskiy arkhitektor |
Stanislav Khitrov | Traktirnyy sluga |
Konstantin Zheldin | otets Chichikova |
Vladimir Steklov | Petrushka |
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina | Dama prosto priyatnaya |