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Film / 2017
Gogol. The Beginning
Directed by
Egor Baranov
1829: Nikolay Gogol, troubled Third Section clerk, burns his own books. Epileptic seizures plague him. Investigator Yakov Guro discovers Gogol's visions hold crime-solving clues. Together, they tackle a baffling case in Dikanka, where everyone hides a dark secret.
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Cast
Alexander PetrovNikolay Vasilievich Gogol
Oleg MenshikovYakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Yan TsapnikBomgart - doctor
Taisiya VilkovaElizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess
Yuliya FrantsOksana
Sergey BadyukВакула (кузнец)
Artyom TkachenkoAleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa
Evgeniy StychkinBinh - investigator
Anton MomotГрицко
Nadezhda Shumilovamidwife
Yevgeni SytyYakim
Artyom SuchkovTesak
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Marta KesslerVasilina
Svetlana KireevaKhristina
Evgeny Kapitonovfather Varfolomey
Pavel DerevyankoAleksander Pushkin
Valery RybinBlack Horseman
Dmitriy Bykovskiy-RomashovSolopiy Cherevik
Ilya BorisovPopovich
Beata Makowskaya
Mariya Myasnikova
Vitaliy Kovalenko
Anastasiya Popova
Andrey Pynzaru
Pavel Grigoryev
Sergei Linkov
Artyom Efremov
Stanislav Lelkhov
Filipp Dyachkov
Dmitry Golovanov
Konstantin Purusov
Eduard ZolotavinTarasevich
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