Gogol's satanic con man rides into the Wild West, and the body count's just getting started.
In 1890, the year of the U.S. census, chaos erupts when a stranger named Strindler arrives in a small town in Arizona and requests money for providing the names of dead Mexican laborers. Adapted from the novel by Nikolai Gogol.
Direction
Cox's anarchic vision merges Gogol with Peckinpah fever dreams.
Writing
Absurdist dialogue that bites harder than any six-shooter.
Production
Dirt-cheap western sets become Brechtian theater of the damned.
Director
Alex Cox
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cox has been trying to make this since 1986, cycling through Willem Dafoe and Mick Jagger before finally playing Strindler himself at 69.
The 'dead souls' scam mirrors Gogol's original—buying names of deceased serfs to fake wealth—here weaponized against exploited immigrant labor instead.
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