Oleg Zorin

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."

The film-play based on the play of the same name by V. Dykhochivny and M. Slobodsky ridicules formalism and bureaucracy.