Nikolay Gogol

A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant (imdb)

An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is traveling in disguise. Fearing he will discover they've been pocketing tax money, they make several bungled attempts to kill him. (imdb)

A "Romeo and Juliet" story that takes place in 18th c. Ukraine. Taras (Yul Brenner) has settled into comfortable farm life after years of adventures and swashbuckling with his cossack companions. Though not wealthy, he is able to send his son Andrei (Tony Curtis) away to a Polish school... (imdb)

A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. (imdb)

Study in pins, of a story by Cogol of a man who loses his nose which becomes a personality in its own right. (BFI)

Sveto mesto (A Holy Place, 1990) is based on a literary classic, Nikolai Gogol's 1835 short story, 'Viy'. However, Kadijevic uses it only as a starting point for his own explorations into the dark side of eroticism. Gogol's story deals with Toma, a reluctant theology student who is forced to read the Psalms over an (un)dead girl for three nights in a row. (imdb)

A simple clerk is driven to replace his shoddy old overcoat. When he finally gets a new one, he finds the consequences of his new social status to be overwhelming. Based on Nikolai Gogol's acclaimed short story.

Adapted from Nikolai Gogol's stories, the film relates the tale of Piotr; too impoverished to marry his beloved, he makes a deal with the satanic Basavriuk in exchange for untold riches. But these riches come at a price.

Based on the classic legend of a cynical journalist who discovers that the power of faith can defeat the forces of unspeakable darkness. (theasylum.cc)

Based on Nikolai Gogol's story with the location changed from Russia to Italy and the time changed to the present (1952), the story is about a poor city-hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is for a new overcoat. (imdb)

Based on Gogol's story. It's Christmas Eve, and everyone in the village has plans. The devil and the witch Solokha are looking for ways of causing mischief. Solokha's son, Vakula, wants to court charming Oksana, who sets him on a quest: if Vakula will bring her the tsaritsa's shoes, Oksana will marry him. (imdb)

ender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead. (imdb)

Soviet film based on Nikolai Gogol stories "Nevsky Prospekt" and "The Overcoat".

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman. (imdb)

Early 18th century cartographer Jonathan Green finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. The villagers share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world. (RFG)

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies. Based on Nikolai Gogol's novel of the same name. (imdb)

Based on Gogol's comic story about the Devil's antics on Christmas Eve, this magical blend of opera and ballet is brought to vivid life in Francesca Zambello's colourful production. Magnificent set designs (Mikhail Mokrov) and costumes (Tatiana Noginova), and an excellent, largely Russian cast provide authenticity. Splendid dancing by The Royal Ballet and Cossack dancers completes the spectacle. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound. (roh.org.uk)

Vlasta Burian appears in a town of Czarist Russia impersonating an Inspector General, and he is entertained lavishly by the local political-hacks and peasants seeking his favor for whatever they are advocating or need fixed. Burain is involved in a series of comical situations as he takes everything he can gets his hands on while the peasants, who must plead for the betterment of their conditions, are left on the outside-looking-in. (imdb)

Luchino Forza is an Italian card sharper hounded by creditors. In order to clear his debt, he travels to Russia to hustle some quick money. On his way, he meets a group of Russian gamblers who emphasize with his situation and agree to collaborate with him... A deal that seems too good to be true. Come meet four expert card sharks as they attempt to con every one of their opponents. (imdb)

Chapter 1. A Strange Woman A young film director 'P', trying to make a film based on a short story by Nikolai Gogol, meets a mysterious actress in an audition. Her overwhelming gift however, being obvious to everyone including 'P' himself, increasingly gets on his nerves in an ominous way. Chapter 2. VIY A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only... (letterboxd)

A man is increasingly unnerved by a mysterious portrait. Based on a story by Nikolai Gogol, the film is thought to have run about 45 minutes long, but only an 8 minute fragment is known to have survived. (themoviedb)

By hot August, to the tsarina, with a hetman deed send in the capital of cossack. On a road he leads an acquaintance with the rakish Zaporozhian cossack. On a halt a new friend told that sold the soul to the devil and waits atonement. At night a cossack did not become lies down to sleep, decided to look that will be farther. As grew dark, a devil came into place of halt, and with her and tsar's deed. It had to the messenger to search a loss in the forest overwhelmed with impure force.

A cheerful grim look at the follies of the twentieth century, anchored in Gogol's proto-surrealist novella 'The Nose' and Shostakovich's opera of the same name.

Adaptation of the 1979 play of the same name by Sha Yexin, Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde, set in mainland China. (Wikipedia)

Surreal Soviet-era Christmas fantasy movie. (imdb)

Pavel Chichikov arrives to a small provincial town with a devious scheme in mind: he plans to enter high society by acquiring dead souls - the recently deceased serfs who are still "alive" on paper. (imdb)

One day Chazaj pays a visit to the poor artist Simon and asks him to paint his portrait. Simon agrees but in the end he commits suicide. After Chazaj's death, the picture changes hands and brings misfortune to all who own it.

Fairy tale based on the story by Nikolay Gogol. (imdb)

A cartoon based on the works of Nikolay Gogol. Handsome blacksmith Vakula who fell in love with village beauty, Oksana, is ready to do anything for her liking. Even to fly on the devil's back to Saint-Petersburg and ask the Empress for the slippers that he can present his sweetheart. (imdb)

The local barber discovers a human nose hiding in a loaf of bread. A strangely familiar nose. Across town, a man wakes up and discovers something doesn't seem quite right about his face. He seems to be missing something.

Folk comedy that tells the adventures of Ukrainian cossacks Vasyl and Andriy as they set out on a long journey to deliver a letter from their leader to the Russian empress in St. Petersburg.

Khlestakov is a young flamboyant crook, who is broke. He finds himself in a small Russian town, where local authorities are waiting for an undercover inspector from the capital St. Petersburg. Khlestakov is mistaken for an undercover inspector, and uses the situation for taking bribes from the local governor and flirting with both his wife and daughter. Khlestakov abuses the corruption and hypocrisy of the local authorities until, at the end, the real inspector shows up.