Dead Souls

About Dead Souls

Dead Souls is a 1960 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Leonid Trauberg based on the Moscow Art Theatre's stage production of "Dead Souls".

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Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души, romanized: Myortvye dushi) is a 1960 Soviet comedy-drama film directed by Leonid Trauberg based on the Moscow Art Theatre's stage production of "Dead Souls".

Cast

Vladimir Belokurov - Chichikov

Viktor Stanitsyn - Governor

Boris Livanov - Nozdryov

Alexey Gribov - Sobakevich

Anastasia Zuyeva - Korobochka

Boris Petker - Plyushkin

Yuri Leonidov - Manilov

Sophia Garrel - governor

Alexey Zhiltsov - Alexei Ivanovich, Chief of Police

Mikhail Yanshin - Ivan Andreevich, postmaster

Sergei Kalinin - Selifan, Chichikov's coachman

Olga Wicklund - Anna, a lady agreeable in all respects

Lyudmila Makarova - Sophia Ivanovna, simply a nice lady

Victoria Radunskaya - the governor's daughter

Nina Agapova - lady at the ball (uncredited)

Yuri Nikulin - Waiter (uncredited)

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Notable quotes

“What a dreary world we live in, gentlemen.”
— How the Two Ivans Quarrelled (1835)
“When the priest went in, he stopped short at the sight of this defamation of God's holy place, and dared not serve the requiem on such a spot. And so the church was left forever, with monsters stuck in the doors and windows, was overgrown with forest trees, roots, rough grass and wild thorns, and no one can now find the way to it.”
— "Viy" (1835)
“It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.”
— Epigraph
“I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That's a totally different matter.”
— Act I, sc. i
“The gentleman lolling back in the chaise was neither dashingly handsome nor yet unbearably ugly, neither too stout nor yet too thin; it could not be claimed he was old but he was no stripling, either. His arrival in the town created no stir and was not marked by anything out of the ordinary.”
— Chapter I
“And for a long time yet, led by some wondrous power, I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
— Vol. I, ch. 7

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