The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering...
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Title: Gogol. The Beginning (2017)
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3 wins & 1 nomination.
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Margarita Adaeva | ... | Varvara |
| Sergey Badyuk | ... | Vakula | |
| Yuliya Dzutseva | ... | Oksana (as Yuliya Frants) | |
| Oleg Menshikov | ... | Guro Yakov Petrovich | |
| Alexander Petrov | ... | Gogol Nikolai Vasilievich | |
| Evgeniy Stychkin | ... | Binkh Alexander Christophorovich | |
| Artyom Tkachenko | ... | Danishevskiy Alexey | |
| Taisiya Vilkova | ... | Danishevskaya Elisaveta Andreevna | |
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The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide. Written by TV3 Press Office
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Country:
RussiaLanguage:
RussianRelease Date:
31 August 2017 (Russia) See more »Also Known As:
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RUR50,000,000 (estimated)Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$7,939,761Company Credits
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The attempt to interpret life of the Russian writer Gogol paying attention to clerk's adventures in Russia, central Ukraine.
The plot is interesting, full of suspense related to mysterious and mystic murders.
The episodes of the film are related to jumps in time and links to dreams of the film's main hero.
Many humorous episodes related to Russian and Ukrainian lifestyle of the 19th century.
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