Natalia BONDARCHUK
Наталья БОНДАРЧУК
Natalia BONDARTCHOUK
Russia, 2009, 105mn 
Colour, fiction
Gogol. The Closest
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Гоголь. Ближайший

 

 Gogol. Tout proche

 Gogol. Blizhayshiy

 
Directed by : Natalia BONDARCHUK (Наталья БОНДАРЧУК)
Writing credits : Natalia BONDARCHUK (Наталья БОНДАРЧУК)
 
Cast
Nikolay BURLIAEV (Николай БУРЛЯЕВ) ...Alexandre Tolstoï
Mariya BURLYAEVA (Мария БУРЛЯЕВА) ...Anna Vilgorskaia
Leonid MOZGOVOY (Леонид МОЗГОВОЙ) ...le médecin Tarassenkov
Yevgeni REDKO (Евгений РЕДЬКО) ...Gogol
Valentina TELICHKINA (Валентина ТЕЛИЧКИНА) ...mère de Gogol
Anastasia ZAVOROTNYUK (Анастасия ЗАВОРОТНЮК) ...Aleksandra Ossipovna
 
Cinematography : Mariya SOLOVIEVA (Мария СОЛОВЬЕВА)
Production design : Sergey VOROBYEV (Сергей ВОРОБЬЕВ)
Music : Ivan BURLIAEV (Иван БУРЛЯЕВ)
 
format : 35 mm

Plot synopsis
The last part of Gogol's life is spent in Nikitsky Avenue in the house of the Tolstois, where the writer continues his work on the second volume of "Dead Souls". The Tolsois are worried because Gogol is not seeing anyone, eats very little. They summon doctor Tarasenkov who defines Gogol's state with the words "spiritually suffering", thus rejecting the diagnosis of "mentally unwell". The writer recalls the most important events of his life...
The title of the movie is an allusion to the famous picture "Appearance of Christ to People", where the artist Alexander Ivanov painted the writer closest to Christ.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009
- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2009