Gogol. The Beginning
"The Darkest Night Before Dawn"
Overview
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.
Movie Details
Revenue
$7.9M
$7,939,761
Languages
Russian
Studio
Sreda
Key Crew
Aleksandr Tsekalo
Producer
Artur Dzhanibekyan
Producer
Valeriy Fedorovich
Producer
Evgeniy Nikishov
Producer
Aleksandra Remizova
Producer
Olga Nikulina
Producer
Olga Kurenkova
Executive Producer
Aleksey Karaulov
Writer
Cast
Alexander Petrov
Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich
Oleg Menshikov
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Yan Tsapnik
Bomgart - doctor
Taisiya Vilkova
Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess
Yuliya Frants
Oksana
Sergey Badyuk
Вакула (кузнец)
Artyom Tkachenko
Aleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa
Evgeniy Stychkin
Binh - investigator
Anton Momot
Грицко
Nadezhda Shumilova
midwife
Yevgeni Syty
Yakim
Artem Suchkov
Tesak
Marta Timofeeva
Vasilina
Svetlana Kireeva
Khristina
Evgeny Kapitonov
father Varfolomey
Pavel Derevyanko
Aleksander Pushkin
Valery Rybin
Black Horseman
Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Solopiy Cherevik
Ilya Borisov
Popovich
Beata Makowskaya
