Soviet film of Nikolay Gogol's classic tale.Soviet film of Nikolay Gogol's classic tale.Soviet film of Nikolay Gogol's classic tale.
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Yuriy Tolubeev
- Petrovich
- (as Yu. Tolubeyev)
Aleksandra Yozhkina
- zhena Petrovicha
- (as A. Yozhkina)
Elena Ponsova
- Avdutya Semyonova khozyayka
- (as Ye. Ponsova)
Georgiy Teykh
- Znachitelnoye litso
- (as G. Teykh)
- …
Georgiy Kolosov
- Chastnyy pristav
- (as G. Kolosov)
Nikolay Kuzmin
- Grabitel
- (as N. Kuzmin)
Mikhail Ladygin
- Rostovhchik
- (as M. Ladygin)
Rem Lebedev
- Pomoshchnik stolonachalnika
- (as R. Lebedev)
Pyotr Lobanov
- Kvartalnyy nadziratel
- (as P. Lobanov)
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fatalism
"Shinel" is adapted from Nikolai Gogol's story about Akaki Akakievich (literally translated, that comes out as "without evil without evil-son), who always has the worst luck in the world. Stuck in a dead-end job with an abusive boss and co-workers, nothing ever works out for him. His apartment looks like something out of a Jean-Paul Sartre play.
This certainly is a good adaptation, although you may feel tempted to throw out "MST3K"-style comments at it, due to the movie's overstuffed sense of itself. I jokingly called the character an Arte Johnson lookalike, although it's only actor Rolan Bykov who looks like Arte Johnson. All in all, this is a good movie, with a real classic feeling of Russian fatalism.
This certainly is a good adaptation, although you may feel tempted to throw out "MST3K"-style comments at it, due to the movie's overstuffed sense of itself. I jokingly called the character an Arte Johnson lookalike, although it's only actor Rolan Bykov who looks like Arte Johnson. All in all, this is a good movie, with a real classic feeling of Russian fatalism.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Nov 8, 2005
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- Runtime1 hour 15 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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