Gogol. The Beginning2017
“The Darkest Night Before Dawn”
Directed by Egor Baranov
🏆 3 wins & 1 nomination
The premise
1829: Nikolay Gogol, troubled Third Section clerk, burns his own books. Epileptic seizures plague him. Investigator Yakov Guro discovers Gogol's visions hold crime-solving clues. Together, they tackle a baffling case in Dikanka, where everyone hides a dark secret.
Horror Vault's take
In 1829 Russia, a young Nikolay Gogol struggles with agonizing epileptic episodes that blur the line between madness and supernatural sight. When a seasoned investigator recognizes that Gogol's tortured visions may be the key to cracking an unsolvable string of crimes, the two unlikely partners travel to the fog-shrouded village of Dikanka. There, dark secrets fester beneath the surface of everyday rural life, and the horror Gogol has only glimpsed in his fits begins to take on very real, very dangerous shape.
Content: Violence, Dark And Disturbing Imagery, Depictions Of Epileptic Seizures
Cast
Alexander Petrov
Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol
Oleg Menshikov
Yakov Petrovich Guro - investigator
Yan Tsapnik
Bomgart - doctor
Taisiya Vilkova
Elizaveta Andreevna Danishevskaya - countess
Yuliya Frants
Oksana
Sergey Badyuk
Вакула (кузнец)
Artyom Tkachenko
Aleksey Danishevsky - Count, husband of Lisa
Evgeniy Stychkin
Binh - investigator
Anton Momot
Грицко
Nadezhda Shumilova
midwife
Yevgeni Syty
Yakim
Artem Suchkov
Tesak
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