Gogol. The Beginning

2017, 1h 40min -

The year 1829. Nikolay Gogol, a young Third Section clerk, is desperate: his own books seem shallow and mediocre, so he keeps buying entire print runs just to burn them all. He is suffering from violent epileptic seizures and struggles to keep on working. Investigator Yakov Guro accidentally witnesses one such fit and realizes that Gogol's visions contain clues that could help solve actual crimes. Together, Gogol and Guro take on a particularly weird and baffling case that brings them to a small village of Dikanka, where everyone has a huge secret to hide.

"Gogol. The Beginning" — movie produced in Russia and released in 2017. It has a mediocre rating on IMDb: 5.8 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 40min. "Gogol. The Beginning" is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime. Click on a playlink to watch it now!