Gogol the Bird

Gogol the Bird

160 mins | March 30, 2009

This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria.

Gogol the Bird

160 mins | March 30, 2009

Gogol the Bird
This biographical picture that was made for the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol,is filmed in the unique style of the author Leonid Parfyonov. Documentary shows that the author of "Dead Souls", "The Inspector General" and "Taras Bulba" is not the founder of realism in Russian literature, but a modern and actual avant-garde writer who created works hitherto unprecedented, full of magic and phantasmagoria.
IMDb rating 7.7
Producers
Original title Птица-Гоголь
Directors Ivan Skvortsov, Sergey Nurmamed
Writers Leonid Parfyonov

Cast

Leonid Parfyonov

as Himself (host)

Zemfira

as