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Gogol. The Beginning (2017) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 31, 2017

Original Title:
Гоголь. Начало

Alternate Titles:
Chroniken der Finsternis - Teil 1 - Der schwarze Reiter
Gogol. Nachalo
Gogol. Origins
Les Chroniques de Viy - Les origines du mal
果戈里·起点

Genres:
Adventure | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Production Companies:
Sreda

Production Countries:
Russia

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16  FR: U  JP: R18+  RU: 18+ 

Runtime: 100

The Darkest Night Before Dawn

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Additional Director of Photography:
Evgeny Kordunsky

Assistant Director:
Galina Strizhevskaya
Vera Kryukova

Casting Director:
Alla Petelina

Costume Design:
Viktoriya Igumnova

Director:
Egor Baranov

Director of Photography:
Sergey Trofimov

Editor:
Alexandr Ivanov

Executive Producer:
Olga Kurenkova
Ivan Golomovzyuk

Makeup Artist:
Tamara Frid

Music:
Ryan Otter

Music Producer:
Denis Dubovik

Producer:
Olga Nikulina
Valeriy Fedorovich
Evgeniy Nikishov
Artur Dzhanibekyan
Darya Skugar
Aleksandra Remizova
Aleksandr Tsekalo
Ivan Samokhvalov

Production Design:
Elena Zhukova

Screenplay:
Tikhon Kornev
Kim Belov
Alexey Chupov
Natalya Merkulova

Short Story:
Nikolai Gogol

Sound Director:
Mikhail Alekseev
Nikita Ershov
Aleksandr Zhizhov

Stunt Coordinator:
Sergey Golovkin

VFX Supervisor:
Evgeny Barulin

Writer:
Aleksey Karaulov
Filipp Konyashov

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