Synopsis
Dead Souls (2020) is a satirical series from director Grigory Konstantinopolsky that you can watch online on iFILM. He drops Gogol's classic poem into present-day Russia and gives Chichikov's old hustle a fresh coat of paint: this Moscow official no longer buys the souls of dead serfs — he sells the living a burial plot next to a celebrity grave.
Yevgeny Tsyganov plays the schemer, surrounded by a rogues' gallery of very recognizable types: Alexander Robak, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Elena Koreneva, Timofey Tribuntsev. Each episode is a separate deal and a separate portrait, running from small-town crooks to capital-city bohemians. Two centuries on, the art of making money out of thin air has barely changed — and that's the bitter joke.
The result is a sharp tragicomedy about how Russian life keeps rhyming with itself across the centuries. It lands best with viewers who like black humor and a literary classic turned inside out. Stream Dead Souls online on iFILM.
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