Gogol. The Beginning
The Darkest Night Before Dawn
100 mins
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.
Valery Rybin
Black Horseman
Darya Skugar
Producer
Filipp Konyashov
Writer
Viktoriya Igumnova
Costume Design
Egor Baranov
Director
Kim Belov
Screenplay
Mikhail Alekseev
Sound Director
Nikita Ershov
Sound Director
Galina Strizhevskaya
Assistant Director
Evgeny Barulin
VFX Supervisor
Vera Kryukova
Assistant Director
Evgeny Kordunsky
Additional Director of Photography
Tamara Frid
Makeup Artist
Alla Petelina
Casting Director
Sergey Golovkin
Stunt Coordinator
Aleksandr Zhizhov
Sound Director
