![]() ![]() In this film, main character Tchitchikov travels through the countryside buying dead souls, or serfs who had deceased. This is a small-screen rendering of Gogol's epic poem critiquing the class system in 19th-century Russia by the same name. The first cinematic interpretation of this work was directed by Pyotr Chardynin in 1909. This story was also adapted as an opera in the 1980s as an American-Soviet production that first opened in Boston. The 1984 miniseries was based on the 1960 film adaptation directed by Leonid Trauberg, which was inspired the Moscow Art Theater script. ![]() In 1930, author Mikhail Bulgakov was commissioned to write the first adaptation of this novel for the Soviet stage at the Moscow Art Theater. This story has been shared in many different interpretations. Dead Souls ( Russian: Мёртвые души, romanized: Myortvye dushi) is a 1984 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, based on Nikolai Gogol's epic poem of the same name. ![]()
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