| Dead Souls | |
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| Directed by | Mikhail Schweitzer |
| Written by | Mikhail Schweitzer Nikolai Gogol (novel) |
| Starring | Aleksandr Kalyagin Larisa Udovichenko Tamara Nosova Innokenty Smoktunovsky Vyacheslav Nevinny Inna Churikova |
| Narrated by | Aleksandr Trofimov |
| Cinematography | Dilshat Fatkhulin |
| Music by | Alfred Schnittke |
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Running time | 387 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
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.[1] 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.[2] The first cinematic interpretation of this work was directed by Pyotr Chardynin in 1909.
- ^ Borden, Richard; Milne, Lesley (July 1994). "Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography". Russian Review. 53 (3): 440. doi:10.2307/131208. JSTOR 131208.
- ^ Holland, Bernard; Times, Special to The New York (1988-03-14). "Review/Opera; U.S.-Soviet Portrayal Of Gogol's 'Dead Souls'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-12.