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Plot

The film is a screen version of the 1835 novella by

Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

Cast

* I. Langfeld * A. Platonov * V. Dalskaya

References

External links

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