Nikolai Gogol's Hand

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Nikolai Gogol's Hand (2009)

Directed by Sergey Lando

“«What is Gogol? Gogol is a shot glass. The glass is remarkable because it is spring, a leaf that does not know withering. When a hand touches a glass, it involuntarily makes an ode, a hymn or a toast, it becomes absolutely sincere»”

· 52m

The film is based on a video made by Sergey Lando on the Petersburg Recording Studio at the end of March 2009, before the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol. Next day, Oleg Karavaichuk took the footage and assembled film. It was first shown on April 1, 2009 in Gogol's birthday at a concert "Diary of a Madman" in Culture House "Lensovet" in St. Petersburg. This film is not about Gogol, but is dedicated to him: in the intervals of playing the piano, the composer talks about the true roots of the writer's work, about the common fate of the greatest people of art, about the synthesis of music and literature, about eternity and paradoxes.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Sergey Lando
Editor
Konstantin Prokofiev
Producer
Alexander Zhitinsky

Details

Original title
Рука Гоголя
Release date
2009-11-20
Runtime
52m
Original language
RU
Spoken languages
Russian
Countries
Russia
Production
Bomba-Piter