Gogol.Origins

Produced: 2017 Genre: detective, drama, horror Duration: 100 min Director: Egor Baranov Main Cast: Alexander Petrov, Oleg Menshikov, Yevgeny Stychkin

Cossacks, witches, mermaids and other inhabitants of the Ukrainian village of Dikanka face their creator, aspiring writer and young clerk from Saint-Petersburg, Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai suffers from the mysterious fits allowing him to communicate with the creatures of the otherworld. Together with his superior, brilliant Saint-Petersburg detective Yakov Guro, Gogol goes to the country to investigate the mysterious murders of young girls. Here he finds his beloved meant to play a crucial part in his life.