A 19th-century Russian bureaucratic nightmare where justice is a circus and everyone's guilty of something.
A film adaptation of A. Sukhovo-Kobylin’s work “The Case,” which reproduces the details of the author’s trial experience.
Acting
Oleg Basilashvili's face—every micro-expression a masterclass in feigned innocence.
Production
Sukhovo-Kobylin's real trial trauma, staged like a sick comedy.
Director
Leonid Pchyolkin
Oleg Basilashvili
Кандид Касторович Тарелкин
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Муромский, отставной капитан, помещик
Mikhail Ulyanov
Максим Кузьмич Варравин
Yuriy Yakovlev
князь
Vladimir Steklov
Иван Сидоров
Aleksandr Pashutin
Сироткин, следователь
Alexandr Karnaushkin
чиновник
Vladimir Mashchenko
чиновник
Sergey Galkin
чиновник
Yevgeni Knyazev
чиновник
Aleksandr Chislov
чиновник
Oleg Zabolotnyy
эпизод
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sukhovo-Kobylin wrote this after being tried for murdering his French mistress—acquitted, but only after three years of torture that broke him completely.
This 1991 adaptation dropped as the USSR collapsed, making its bureaucratic rot hit different—audiences watching their own system dissolve while laughing at Gogol's grandchildren.
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