Egor BARANOV
Егор БАРАНОВ
Egor BARANOV
Russia, 2017, 100mn 
fiction
Gogol.The Beginning
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Гоголь. Начало

 

 Les Chroniques de Viy. Les origines du mal

 Gogol. Nachalo

 
Directed by : Egor BARANOV (Егор БАРАНОВ)
Writing credits : Kim BELOV (Ким БЕЛОВ), Aleksey CHUPOV (Алексей ЧУПОВ), Tikhon KORNEV (Тихон КОРНЕВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr PETROV (Александр ПЕТРОВ)
Oleg MENSHIKOV (Олег МЕНЬШИКОВ)
Yevgeni STYCHKIN (Евгений СТЫЧКИН)
Taisya VILKOVA (Таисия ВИЛКОВА)
Sergey BADYUK (Сергей БАДЮК)
Yulia FRANTZ / DZUTSEVA (Юлия ФРАНЦ / ДЗУЦЕВА)
Yevgeni SYTY (Евгений СЫТЫЙ)
Marta TIMOFEEVA (Марта ТИМОФЕЕВА)
Artiom TKACHENKO (Артем ТКАЧЕНКО)
Yan TSAPNIK (Ян ЦАПНИК )
 
Cinematography : Sergey TROFIMOV (Сергей ТРОФИМОВ)
Production design : Yelena ZHUKOVA (Елена ЖУКОВА)
Produced by : Valery FEDOROVICH (Валерий ФЕДОРОВИЧ), Artur JANIBEKYAN (Артур ДЖАНИБЕКЯН), Aleksandr TSEKALO (Александр ЦЕКАЛО)
Other persons :
Композитор : Райан Оттер / Musique : Ryan Otter
Production : кинокомпания "Среда" / Société de production "Sréda"; TV3 Channel
Film revenue in Russia : 7.856 million dollars
Spectators : 1 911 849
Release date in Russia : 31/08/2017
 
Sites : Page sur Allociné, page sur IMDb
VOD or DVD release in France : 2020-02-06, Site

Awards :
Best Set Decoration Yelena ZHUKOVA , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2019

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Metropolitan Film & Video. 2020. Titre : Les Chroniques de Viy : Les origines du Mal.
Contient :
- Les Chroniques de Viy : Les origines du mal
- Les Chroniques de Viy : Le chasseur de démons (en plus pour le Blu-ray)

Plot synopsis
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.
—TV3 Press Office
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Horreur et tragédie: huit films russo-soviétiques pour une soirée d’Halloween réussie, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2022
Egor Baranov – Les Chroniques de Viy (2017-2018), Russkaya Fantastika, 2020
Egor Baranov: Gogol. The Beginning (Gogol’. Nachalo, 2017), Frederick C. CORNEY, Kinokultura, 2018
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2020
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2019
- Nantes Russian Film Festival, Nantes (France), 2018
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2017

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