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Case of the "Dead Souls"

2005 · 1 season

A surreal, satirical plunge into bureaucratic absurdity, where comedy and menace blur into a disorienting, Gogolian fever dream.

Created by
Pavel Lungin
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Action & adventure
Starring
Pavel Derevyanko, Konstantin Khabensky, Sergey Garmash
Overview
A young official named Schiller goes to the city of N. conduct an investigation. An ordinary, at first glance, case turns out to be a serious test for the investigator. From the first minutes of the young man's appearance in the city, mysterious incidents begin to haunt him.

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Created by
Pavel Lungin
Genres
Drama, Comedy, Action & adventure
Starring
Pavel Derevyanko, Konstantin Khabensky, Sergey Garmash
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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • corruption
  • identity
  • deception
  • power
  • madness
Places
  • small town
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • serialised
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror3
Humour6
Realism5
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy, action & adventure
Created by
Pavel Lungin
Written by
Pavel Lungin, Givi Shavgulidze, Yuriy Arabov, Marijetta Zaharjan
Starring
Pavel Derevyanko, Konstantin Khabensky, Sergey Garmash, Nina Usatova, Sergej Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Viktor Abrosimov, Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Cinematography
Sergey Astakhov
Length
1 seasons, 8 episodes, 364 min each
Network
NTV
Country
Russia
Languages
Russian

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