Gogol. The Beginning

Gogol. The Beginning

100 mins | Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Mystery | Aug. 31, 2017

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.

Gogol. The Beginning

100 mins | Thriller, Adventure, Horror, Mystery | Aug. 31, 2017

Gogol. The Beginning
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.
IMDb rating 5.8
Producers Sreda
Original title Гоголь. Начало
Directors Egor Baranov
Writers Filipp Konyashov, Aleksey Karaulov, Kim Belov, Natalya Merkulova, Alexey Chupov, Nikolai Gogol, Tikhon Kornev

Cast

Alexander Petrov

as Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich

Oleg Menshikov

as Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator

Yan Tsapnik

as Bomgart - doctor

Taisiya Vilkova

as Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess

Yuliya Dzutseva

as Oksana

Sergey Badyuk

as Вакула (кузнец)

Artyom Tkachenko

as Aleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa

Evgeniy Stychkin

as Binh - investigator

Anton Momot

as Грицко

Nadezhda Shumilova

as midwife

Yevgeni Syty

as Yakim

Artem Suchkov

as Tesak

Marta Timofeeva

as Vasilina

Svetlana Kireeva

as Khristina

Evgeny Kapitonov

as father Varfolomey

Pavel Derevyanko

as Aleksander Pushkin

Valery Rybin

as Black Horseman

Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov

as Solopiy Cherevik

Ilya Borisov

as Popovich