Dead Souls

1984 Soviet television miniseries directed by Mikhail Schweitzer
TVSeries miniseries Q4310515
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Dead Souls

Summary

Dead Souls is a miniseries[1]. It draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (miniseries category, ranking #330 of 738).[2]

Key Facts

  • Dead Souls's instance of is recorded as miniseries[3].
  • Dead Souls's director is recorded as Mikhail Schweitzer[4].
  • Dead Souls's screenwriter is recorded as Mikhail Schweitzer[5].
  • Dead Souls's composer is recorded as Alfred Schnittke[6].
  • Dead Souls's genre is recorded as tragicomedy[7].
  • Dead Souls's genre is recorded as historical drama[8].
  • Dead Souls's based on is recorded as Dead Souls[9].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Alexander Kalyagin[10].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Larisa Udovichenko[11].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Tamara Nosova[12].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Innokenty Smoktunovsky[13].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Vyacheslav Nevinny[14].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Inna Churikova[15].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Yuri Bogatyryov[16].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina[17].
  • Dead Souls's cast member is recorded as Aleksandr Trofimov[18].
  • Dead Souls's production company is recorded as Mosfilm[19].
  • Dead Souls's IMDb ID is recorded as tt0168084[20].
  • Dead Souls's original language of film or TV show is recorded as Russian[21].
  • Dead Souls's color is recorded as color[22].
  • Dead Souls's country of origin is recorded as Soviet Union[23].
  • Dead Souls's start time is recorded as +1984-11-19T00:00:00Z[24].
  • Dead Souls's end time is recorded as +1984-11-23T00:00:00Z[25].
  • Dead Souls's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06zspm_[26].
  • Dead Souls's title is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Мёртвые души'}[27].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Dead Souls's director is recorded as Mikhail Schweitzer[4]. Its screenwriter is recorded as Mikhail Schweitzer[5]. Cast members include Alexander Kalyagin[10], Larisa Udovichenko[11], Tamara Nosova[12], Innokenty Smoktunovsky[13], Vyacheslav Nevinny[14], and Inna Churikova[15].

Publication

Dead Souls's original language of film or TV show is recorded as Russian[21]. Genres include tragicomedy[7] and historical drama[8].

Adaptations and Inspiration

Dead Souls's after a work by is recorded as Nikolai Gogol[28].

Why It Matters

Dead Souls draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (miniseries category, ranking #330 of 738).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

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  24. [26] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  26. [28] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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