Original Concept
An exploration of 20th century Russia, following the fusing of the Party and the state after the Russian Civil War, which opened the doors to corruption, resulting in the exiling of the left and right opposition. Described using a combination of historical settings, biographies and masterpieces from Russian avant-garde artists, composers and writers from this period in history.
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왕국을 지켜주던 용의 인장을 차지하려 한 흑마녀의 군대는 백마법사와 공주를 잡아 세상의 양쪽 끝에 있는 감옥에 가둬버린다. 우연히 세계 지도를 만드는 조너선에 의해 풀려난 공주는 갇혀있는 아버지와 왕국을 구하기 위해 마녀에 맞서는 최후의 전투를 치르게 되는데…
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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.
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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.
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A lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death.
Short Story
1829년, 작가를 꿈꾸던 비밀경찰 소속 서기관 니콜라이 고골은 오직 살인사건 현장에서만 발작을 일으키고 환영을 본다. 유명한 수사관 야고프 구로는 그런 고골의 발작에서 사건을 해결하는데 필요한 단서가 있다는 사실을 깨닫게 된다. 고골과 구로 수사관은 여자 3명이 죽은 미스터리한 사건을 해결하러 '디칸카'지역으로 떠나게 되는데...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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18세기 유럽, 지도 제작자 '조나단'은 새로운 지도 제작을 위한 항해를 시작한다. 오랜 여행으로 지쳐갈 즈음 우크라이나 숲에서 길을 잃은 ‘조나단’! 사제들의 도움으로 가까스로 목숨을 구하고, 그들로부터 저주받은 마을에 대한 이야기를 듣게 되는데… 마을근처에도 얼씬도 하지 말라는 사제들의 경고에도 불구하고 ‘조나단’은 무언가에 홀린 듯 마을로 향하고, 마녀의 저주로 두려움에 떨던 마을 사람들은 갑작스럽게 나타난 그를 사탄의 사자라며 멀리한다. 한 편, 지도자 '소트니크'는 ‘조나단’에게 비밀스러운 제안을 해오는데.... 세상의 끝 저주받은 마을, 악마들이 깨어난다!
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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.
Novel
Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.
Original Story
Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.
Novel
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.
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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
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The family that slays together stays together. A young man must watch over the body of a dead spiritualist for three nights running, and he gradually pieces together a family history for the dead man that leads to madness and murder. An intense terrifying nightmare based on Nikolai Gogol's The Vij.
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Swedish TV-Movie
Original Story
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.
Novel
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
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In this loose remake of Black Sunday (1960), a group of skiers in Northern Italy land in a huge crevasse where they find the body of a long dead girl covered by a mask. Out of curiosity and nothing better to do they remove the mask and start playing games with it. Turns out this dead girl is the witch Anibas who had been condemned to die by burning and the mask put on her face to prevent her return.
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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".
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Television version of the play based on the comedy by N. Gogol "The Inspector" performed by the State Academic Maly Theater of the USSR.
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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.
Theatre Play
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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'.
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The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
Theatre Play
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...
Novel
A fantasy about an official whose nose has escaped.
Theatre Play
A comedy based on a classic play 'Revizor' by Nikolai Gogol.
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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.
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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.
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Mexico's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974
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Short Soviet puppet animation based on Gogol's novel Dead Souls.
Theatre Play
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.
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Petro is a modest farmhand living in an impoverished village in some unspecified long-ago era. He wants to marry the lovely Pidorka, but her stern father won't hear of it. The mischievous demon Basavriuk, offers a deal, enticing Petro into crime for the sake of fortune. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s short story “The Eve of Ivan Kupala” (“St John’s Eve”) and Ukrainian folk tales.
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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.
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방학을 맞아 밖으로 나온 신학생 코마 칼리바, 고르베쯔는 길을 잃고, 간신히 인가를 찾아 하룻밤 묵게 해줄 것을 청하는데. 주인 노파는 마녀로 변해 코마를 괴롭힌다. 간신히 마녀를 때려 눕히고 보니, 마녀는 아리따운 아가씨로 변한다. 놀라 도망치는 코마, 어느날 영주가 코마를 불러 딸을위한 기도를 부탁한다. 교회에 들어간 그는 뜻밖에도 그녀가 자신이 패준 마녀임을 알게 된다. 그러나 어쩔 수 없이 3일간 기도를 드리게 되는데. 밤마다 마녀는 깨어나 코마를 위협하니, 드디어 3일째 되는날...
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A study in pins of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right.
Novel
폴란드가 터키의 침공을 받자, 폴란드에 인접한 기마족 코사크는 폴란드와의 동맹국으로서 전쟁에 참여한다. 하지만 폴란드가 배신하자, 코사크족은 대초원을 되찾기 위한 재기와 복수를 다짐한다. 이들 중 한 사람인 용맹한 용사 타라스 부리바는 이즈음 아들 안드레이를 낳고 용감한 용사로 키우려한다. 청년으로 성장한 안드레이는 아버지의 뜻에 따라 학문을 배우기 위해 동생과 폴란드의 학교에 들어간다. 코사크라는 이유로 많은 배척을 받던 안드레이는 폴란드의 귀족 처녀 나탈리아를 보고 한 눈에 반한다. 두 사람이 사랑하는 사이가 되자, 이를 시기한 나탈리아의 애인인 알렉스 대위를 살해하게 되고 안드레이와 그의 동생은 탈출을 감행하여 2년만에 초원의 집으로 돌아온다. 타라스는 폴란드 제국과의 동맹 협정으로 전쟁을 반대하고 있는 족장 니콜라스를 물리치고 진군한다. 마침내 폴란드와 코사크와의 대규모 전쟁이 시작되는데, 타라스가 지휘하는 코사크는 폴란드군을 제압하고 드브르 성을 포위한다. 부상을 치료한 안드레이는 성안에 있는 나탈리아를 만나기 위해 어둠을 틈타 성안에 잠입하여 안드레이와 재회하지만, 결국 함께 잡히고 만다. 나탈리아가 화형에 처할 위기를 맞자 안드레이는 그녀를 구할 조건으로 성밖의 소떼를 끌고 올 것을 약속한다. 하지만 아버지 타라스와 마주친 안드레이는 결국 총을 맞고 쓰러진다. 이때 폴란드군은 총공격을 감행하자, 코사크는 이를 무찌르고 큰 희생 끝에 승리한다. 나탈리아는 들판에 쓰러져 있는 안드레이의 시신을 발견하고는 슬퍼한다.
Theatre Play
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.
Novel
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.
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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.
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Short Story
19세기 중반, 토마스 크루바얀 박사는 조수 안드레이 고로벡과 함께 몰다비아를 여행하던 중 17세기에 처형된 마녀이자 흡혈귀인 아사 바이다의 무덤을 지나게 된다. 이때 우연히 떨어진 크루바얀의 피로 인해 아사는 깨어나게 되고, 함께 처형됐던 하인 이고르 야부티치를 살려낸다. 그들의 부활로 인해 바이다 성은 다시 공포의 장이 된다. 이윽고 아사는 인간으로 부활하기 위해 그녀와 쌍둥이처럼 닮은 후손인 카티아 바이다를 노리고, 카티아를 사랑하게 된 안드레이는 아사의 저주로부터 카티아를 구하려고 한다.
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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.
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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!
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Comedy from Hong Kong directed by Ng Wui.
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Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
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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.
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"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
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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...
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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.
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Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
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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.
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Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.
Theatre Play
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him.
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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.
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Film-opera based on Tschaikovsky's adaptation of Gogol's story, 'Noch' pyered Rozhdestvom.'
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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.
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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.
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In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
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The film is based on eponymous play by Nikolay Gogol.
Theatre Play
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.
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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.
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Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".
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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.
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Based on Gogol's story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit for the Tsarina. A mischievous devil is trapped into providing service to the smith.
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Based on a the horror novella of the same name. First Russian horror film.
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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.
