One liar crashes a town of corrupt fools — Gogol's chaos machine, unleashed.
The performance of the Moscow Theater of Satire, based on the play by N.V. Gogol.
Acting
Mironon's physical comedy is genuinely transcendent.
Direction
Pluchek stages theatrical intimacy for the screen.
Writing
Gogol's 1836 dialogue still cuts like a knife.
Director
Valentin Pluchek
Andrey Mironov
Хлестаков
Anatoliy Papanov
Городничий
Tatyana Vasileva
Мария Антоновна
Mikhail Derzhavin
Бобчинский
Aleksandr Shirvindt
Добчинский
Georgi Menglet
Земляника
Viktor Baykov
Коробкин
Spartak Mishulin
Хлопов
Zinovi Vysokovsky
почтмейстер
Yuri Avsharov
Ляпкин-Тяпкин
Nina Korniyenko
Пошлёпкина
Yuri Sokovnin
Свистунов
Georgi Tusuzov
Гибнер
Vladimir Ushakov
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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pluchek was legendary for adapting theatrical classics to Soviet television, preserving live performance energy for mass audiences.
Gogol wrote this in 1836; it was instantly banned by the Tsar. The 1982 version arrived during Brezhnev's stagnation — audiences definitely got the joke.
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