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Gogol. The Beginning (2017)

Original title: Гоголь. Начало

2017-08-31 · 1h 40m · RU
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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.

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Egor BaranovDirectorAleksey KaraulovWriterFilipp KonyashovWriter
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Alexander PetrovAlexander PetrovGogol Nikolay VasilievichOleg MenshikovOleg MenshikovYakov Petrovich Guro - investigatorYan TsapnikYan TsapnikBomgart - doctorTaisiya VilkovaTaisiya VilkovaElizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countessYuliya FrantsYuliya FrantsOksanaSergey BadyukSergey BadyukВакула (кузнец)Artyom TkachenkoArtyom TkachenkoAleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of LisaEvgeniy StychkinEvgeniy StychkinBinh - investigatorAnton MomotAnton MomotГрицкоNadezhda ShumilovaNadezhda ShumilovamidwifeYevgeni SytyYevgeni SytyYakimArtem SuchkovArtem SuchkovTesak

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Genre affinityThriller · Adventure · HorrorNarrative complexityMysteryDirector preference27685Actor preference24799 · 18131 · 174804Country preferenceRuDecade preference2010

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What is Gogol. The Beginning about?

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.

How long is Gogol. The Beginning?

Gogol. The Beginning has a runtime of 100 minutes.