Word: gogol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...OVERCOAT. An insignificant clerk (Roland Bykov) loses his new overcoat and with it his reason for existence in this small, delicate Russian tragedy based on Gogol's classic story...
...first American tour, in 1923, the company performed four plays, including Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters. It returned with those two dramas, an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, and a new "realistic Soviet" play, Kremlin Chimes, all of which were warmly praised by the newspaper and magazine critics...
...precision and unity of the cast. No expression was wasted, and even the smallest movement was related to the entire scene. The acting was carefully controlled yet emotionally convincing, and each actor presented his character with a few clear gestures, making room for an endless variety of Gogol's cynical caricatures...
...OVERCOAT. In this virtually flawless Russian film based on Gogol's classic story, Roland Bykov is superb as the nondescript clerk for whom a new overcoat becomes a matter of life and death...
...OVERCOAT. In this virtually flawless Russian film based on Gogol's classic story, Roland Bykov is superb as the nondescript clerk for whom a new overcoat becomes a matter of life and death...