2017 | Fiction | 48 min. | Russia
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.
Director: Egor Baranov
Producer: Alexander Tsekalo, Valery Fedorovich, Evgeny Nikishov, Igor Mishin and Alexander Dulerain
Сast: Alexander Petrov, Oleg Menshikov and Taisiya Vilkova
Studio: "Sreda" Production Company
