Gogol. The Beginning
The Darkest Night Before Dawn
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Release Date
8/31/2017Runtime
100 minsOverview
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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ReleasedOriginal Language
RussianBudget
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$7,939,761Homepage
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A moody historical mystery that intertwines Gogol's psychological torment with a genuinely creepy crime investigation, blending the protagonist's inner demons with external darkness. The film treats his epileptic visions not as spectacle but as the fractured key to understanding both his artistic crisis and a village's hidden sins.
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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
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