Nikolai Gogol

Basada en el popular cuento satírico de Nikolái Gógol, ha sido nominada a los Premios del Cine Europeo y Gran Premio del Jurado en el prestigioso Festival de Annecy. Una joya de la animación surrealista que apela al collage de estilos, técnicas, formatos, líneas temporales y géneros para hacer un homenaje a la vanguardia artística rusa y su posterior caída ante el régimen artístico de Stalin. Un goce para todos los sentidos. Un burócrata del estado se despierta un día sin su nariz. Más tarde descubre que esta ha desarrollado vida propia y lo ha superado en estatus social al alcanzar el rango de consejero del estado.

El cartógrafo inglés Jonathan Green recibe la orden de crear un mapa de la lejana Rusia. En su largo viaje, Jonathan vivirá todo tipo de aventuras, desde enfrentamientos con extrañas criaturas y batallas con maestros en artes marciales hasta brujas milenarias ocultas en los rincones más recónditos de la legendaria China. Pero todas las pruebas parecerán un juego de niños cuando tenga que enfrentarse al mayor de los enemigos jamás creado por la magia negra: el gran Rey de los Dragones.

An animated adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic short story about an office worker who saves all his money to buy a new coat in time for Christmas, only to have fate take a ghostly hand.

An exploration of the world of the secret organizations and free masonry. A two - minute - epic revealing what the world has become with morals' absence in every aspect of life.

A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death.

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.

A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alike. Among them a farmer whose daughter is not allowed to marry her lover because her quarrelsome stepmother is against it.

John Person tells the story of how he fell into his coveted job by describing the life of Anatole, the man who occupied the position originally and cherished nothing more in his meager existence than his overcoat.

A comic-fantastic opera by Tchaikovsky, also known as Cherevichki. In a small Ukrainian village, the devil decides to steal the moon to revenge himself on his enemy, Vakula the smith.

Principios del siglo 18. El cartógrafo Cartographer Jonathan Green emprende un viaje científico por Europa hacia el este. Luego de pasar por Transilvania y habiendo cruzado los Montes Cárpatos, se encuentra en una pequeña villa perdida en los bosques. Sólo las posibiliades y una pesada niebla podrían haberlo traído a este lugar maldito. La gente que vive en el lugar no se parece a ninguna que el viajante haya visto antes. Los habitantes, habiendo cavado una profunda fosa para defenderse del mundo exterior, comparten la ingenua creencia de que pueden salvarse del mal, sin llegar a entender que el mal ha hecho su nido en sus almas y que espera la oportunidad de esparcirse por el mundo.

Acclaimed artist William Kentridge directed and designed this visually dazzling Met premiere production of Shostakovich’s satirical opera, adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Paulo Szot leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing. Alexander Lewis and Andrey Popov co-star, and Pavel Smelkov conducts.

Durante miles de años, arios y otros pueblos han luchado por la hegemonía en la región de Ucrania. En el siglo XVI, son el polaco y el turco los dos ejércitos que luchan por el poder en la zona. Finalmente la victoria se decanta del lado eslavo, gracias a la ayuda de los cosacos, comandados por Taras Bulba. El jefe de los polacos invita a los jefes aliados a brindar por la victoria. Sin embargo, sus agasajos son despreciados por Bulba, incapaz de subordinarse. (FILMAFFINITY)

Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.

Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing to a friendship and a cooperation. It is hard not to find oneself liking the gallant Italian.

Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she transforms into a hideous demon. Ivan fights the creature, managing to strangle it. But it is too late, Evil has been unleashed. When Ivan is charged for the brutal murder, he feels his last hope disappear. As he is overcome by the dark forces trying to pose as his soul, Ivan comes to realize that his only hope lies in his power to find the faith that he once lost

Un joven vigila el cadáver de un espiritualista durante tres noches intensas, reuniendo gradualmente una historia que lleva a la familia del difunto a la locura.

Swedish TV-Movie

Based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol, this blackly comic fairytale is about a lonely social outcast who, in an effort to raise his status at work, spends all his money on a new overcoat, which seemingly gives him the approval he craves. But when it's stolen from him, he cannot return to his previous life of anonymity, leading to a downward spiral from which there is no return.

An update of Gogol's comic story about a man who thinks the way to his boss's heart is by sending letters to her dog. Starring Steve Evets, Yasmin Mills and The Fall's Mark E Smith

"The Night Before Christmas" is a Russian puppet cartoon that was created by director Ekaterina Mikhailova at the studio "AnimaFilm" of the Moscow Children's Fund with the support of Goskino in 1997.

Change is an enchanted place where the past is impossibility and the future does not yet exist. It is a place where love, beauty and the forces of life are a reality. Change is a place which the main hero finds incredibly exciting. It is a place where the waves break on the shore and where love finishes, where the seasons change. Every moment captured by the camera in this film is about change.

Three friends lived in a Ukrainian village. They were not rich, so they were happy to take up the proposed small job. They had to go to another village at a dark night. On the way, they saw a small farmhouse and a cottage, where they decided to spend the night. Thus very strange mystical events began.

Strange love story between Toma, a reluctant theology student and Katarina, the beautiful daughter of a powerful feudal lord. After Katarina's mysterious death, Toma is, according to her wishes, forced to read the prayers over her body for three nights in a row.

Un grupo de jóvenes descubren en una grieta, la tumba de una mujer que lleva una máscara puesta en la cabeza. Al quitársela, despiertan a la mujer, que resultará ser una bruja de miles de años de antigüedad.

About friendship, betrayal and hidden resentments that have befallen the protagonists during their stay in the royal army. For instance, one employee, Ivan, was bestowed a very high reward for bravery. But not everyone had it to their liking. Soon Petro, his sworn brother, took all the money from Ivan having contributed to Ivan’s falling into the precipice. Petro has now become rich, but this is only the beginning of his story. Based on Gogol's short story "Terrible Vengeance".

Television version of the play based on the comedy by N. Gogol "The Inspector" performed by the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.

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.

Based on the works of Nikolai Gogol - 'The Old World Landowners', 'The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich', 'Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt'.

The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.

There lived a Ukrainian lad. He was nice and not stupid, but poverty prevented him from choosing a wife that he loved. To achieve his goal, he went on a very dangerous and serious step, having sold his soul to evil powers. Since then, his life has changed dramatically, becoming prosperous and even luxurious, but the hour of reckoning will come, which inevitably puts pressure on the protagonist...

Shostakovich’s satirical opera adapted from the classic short story by Nikolai Gogol. Baritone Eduard Akimov leads the cast as Kovalyov, the hapless bureaucrat whose nose has mysteriously gone missing.

The play is about the Game, about creativity, which this time turned into the form of a brilliant speck. Skillfully, talentedly and artistically, the victim of the same players as himself, Ikharev does not suffer a catastrophe, because his "Adelaide Ivanovna" remains with him. Tool and mascot of his game. His secret manuscript ...

Based on the comedy of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Succumbing to the persuasion of his friend Kochkaryov, a middle-aged court adviser Podkolyosin wooed to the overripe girl Agafya Tikhonovna, a merchant's daughter. At the very last moment, having gone through a painful period of matchmaking, and bringing the matter to a wedding, indecisive grief — the groom escapes from under the crown, jumping into the window...

A fantasy about an official whose nose has escaped.

A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.

The blacksmith Vakula is going to propose to the beautiful but vain Oksana. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at Vakula, because he paints religious art in the village church.

Vanya, an officious and dutiful child, grows into Ivan Shponka, a meek, paranoid lieutenant, then retires back to his provincial estate. Only one incident could make a crease in his lazy existence – his domineering aunt's urges to get him married against his own desire.

El pueblo de San Garabato está alborotado, pues sabe que vendrá un inspector a visitarlos. Por azares del destino, el fuereño Calzonzin es confundido con el inspector, iniciándose así una serie de enredos y confusiones. Se organizan desfiles de recepción, visitas a un hospital y a una cárcel de utilería. Calzonzin, a su vez, enamora a la hija y a la esposa del corrupto presidente municipal. La gente del pueblo, entretanto, le presenta sus quejas al inspector, quien escribe la verdad a un periodista, pero su carta es interceptada por el jefe de correos.

Short Soviet puppet animation based on Gogol's novel Dead Souls.

Following a misunderstanding, a traveler is mistaken for an important official on an inspection tour. Nothing will be spared to coax him into turning a blind eye to the prevarications: embezzlement, exactions of all kinds practiced by the local notables.

Piotr, un granjero pobre, ama a Pidorka, cuyo padre quiere casarla con un hombre rico. Para conseguirla, Piotr hará un pacto con el demonio Bassavriuk: oro a cambio de la flor del helecho.

Based on Nicolai Gogol's "The Diary of a Madman," a poor, bachelor clerk paranoically mutters his complaints to the camera: the menial nature of his job, his unrequited love for the boss's daughter (Sofi), and what finally develops into a murderous hatred for mankind.

Khoma, un estudiante en un monasterio en Kiev, se pierde en el bosque mientras viaja a casa al final del trimestre con dos compañeros seminaristas. Al caer la noche encuentran alojamiento en la casa de una anciana. Khoma se mete en el establo y se acuesta a dormir, pero su descanso se ve perturbado por la anciana, que a la primera oportunidad, salta sobre su espalda y las dos salen volando con una escobapor el cielo nocturno. Al darse cuenta de que ha sido atrapado por una bruja, Khoma lucha por liberarse y golpea a la anciana en el suelo con un palo. Ante sus ojos, la bruja moribunda se transforma en una hermosa joven y Khoma huye de la escena. De regreso al monasterio, una delegación llega exigiendo que Khoma los acompañe de vuelta a su aldea para rezar por el cadáver de una joven durante tres noches. Al llegar a la aldea, el estudiante pronto descubre que debe pasar las noches encerrado solo en la iglesia con el cuerpo de la bruja que había dejado por muerta...

A study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.

Ucrania, siglo XVI. Mientras los polacos dominan las estepas cosacas, Andrei, hijo de Taras Bulba, un líder cosaco, debe elegir entre el amor por su familia y su pueblo y su pasión por una mujer polaca.

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

The story that happened on the farm near Dikanka on the night before Christmas, when the village blacksmith Vakula, having saddled the Devil, brought to his beloved Oksana, the daughter of a rich Cossack Chub, queen's "сherevichki"(the little women shoes) from the capital — St. Petersburg.

On the verge of being expelled from his home for not paying his debts, a government employee is mistaken for an inspector and decides to use that as an advantage.

Durante la Edad Media, la Inquisición rusa condena a muerte a una pareja de amantes que practican la brujería y los ejecuta poniéndoles una máscara con púas en su interior. Siglos después, sus ataúdes son encontrados y abiertos por dos viajeros. Al retirar las máscaras de los cadáveres, los brujos vuelven a la vida y siembran el pánico entre los habitantes del lugar.

A story about a government clerk who has his precious new overcoat stolen. No-one seems willing to help him retrieve his prized possession, a fact that continues to concern him even when he is beyond the grave.

How did Ivan Ivanovich quarrel with Ivan Nikiforovich? Ivan Ivanovich went to his bosom friend Ivan Nikiforovich, wishing to beg for the gun he liked. Yes, it didn’t work out. And in the heat of the argument, take Ivan Nikiforovich and call Ivan Ivanovich a gander. And take it and be angry. And what happened next ... Oh, what happened!

Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.

Inspirado en el cuento "El capote" de Nicolai Gogol, esta "ópera prima" de Jack Clayton narra una historia de fantasmas más dramática que aterradora. Se considera el precedente de "Suspense", una de las mejores películas de Clayton.

An impending visit from a VIP causes chaos and confusion in the small, isolated village of Sukaslamet. Things take a hilarious turn when the herbal medicine seller is mistaken for the exalted guest and is accorded a ceremonial welcome in the most elaborate Javanese style.

"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up...

The son of an obstinate mayor cannot get his father's consent to wed the beautiful Hanna. He receives unexpected assistance from evil, mysterious forces – Satan, witches, and rusalki – who work together to bring the couple happiness, bringing mayhem and celebration.

De Carmine es un gris escribano que trabaja en el ayuntamiento. Sus compañeros se ríen de él, es torpe, el alcalde le trata a la baqueta y además su abrigo es un harapo con un agujero enorme. Con sus ahorros de años decide hacerse un abrigo nuevo que le transforma el carácter, gana popularidad y se atreve a ir a la fiesta de Nochevieja a casa del secretario general y bailar en ella con Caterina, la amante del alcalde. Pero al salir, se lo roban...

A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart.

Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.

Siendo Napoleón emperador de Francia, a un estafador de poca monta lo confunden con el temible Inspector General, un enviado oficial de Bonaparte para controlar y acabar con la corrupción generalizada en los vastos territorios del imperio.

People are afraid of the usurer Chazaj and are convinced that he is the bearer of evil. One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon Jordán and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but as he progresses with the work his mind conjures up terrible thoughts and in the end he commits suicide. The portrait looks lifelike and Chazaj is content with the results. After Chazaj's death the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it. The last victim is the young painter Roman who buys Chazaj's portrait in a bazaar. He finds a treasure in the frame and begins to live well off it. The comfortable life suits him so well that he rejects his original artistic aims and becomes a painter of fashionable kitsch.

Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'

The Lost Letter (Russian: Пропа́вшая гра́мота, Propavshaya gramota), or A Disappeared Diploma, is a 1945 Soviet animated film directed by the Brumberg sisters and Lamis Bredis. It is the first Soviet cel-animated feature film. It was produced at the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow and is based on the story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol.

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.

In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.

The film is based on eponymous play by Nikolay Gogol.

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. He makes his escape just as the real Inspector General is set to appear, but those-in-need will be no better off when the real McCoy shows up then they were with Burian.

To justify the fantastic adventures of the blacksmith Vakula, the authors of the film “simplify” Gogol’s plot: Vakula, having drunk too much at Patsiuk’s place, falls asleep. And he sees this dream where the devil takes him to the palace of Catherine II in Saint-Petersburg; and there Vakula takes off the little shoes of the Russian empress to give them to his fiancée Oksana. And, really, drunk Vakula takes off the shoes while sleeping… but from Patsiuk. Later, when Vakula unwraps the package with the “royal slippers” in front of Oksana, he finds only Patsiuk’s dirty shoes there.

Historia de Akaki Akákievich Bashmachkin, un funcionario de San Petersburgo que trabaja como copista en los escalafones más bajos de la administración rusa. Pese a su humilde condición, debe gastar todos sus ahorros en encargar un nuevo capote para protegerse del duro invierno petersburgués

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived.

Adaptación de la historia de Gogol: es la víspera de navidad y todo el mundo tiene sus planes... sin contar con que el demonio y la bruja Solokha van a intentar evitar que sus sueños se hagan realidad.

Based on a the horror novella of the same name. First Russian horror film.

A story of chilling beautiful wintry St. Petersburg and the child-like main protagonist, whose little joys give him solace in this cold, cruel world.