The Case of "Dead Souls"

The Case of "Dead Souls" (Дело о «Мёртвых душах») is a 2005 Russian television miniseries directed by Pavel Lungin loosely based on various stories by Nikolai Gogol, including Dead Souls.

Plot
The collegiate registrar Ivan Shiller (Pavel Derevyanko) is sent to the provincial city of N to investigate the disappearance of fraudster Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov (Konstantin Khabensky) from prison. He is obstructed by city officials who are led by Governor A.A. Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky (Sergei Garmash). After going through the investigation through a series of meetings of strange encounters, Schiller himself turns into Chichikov in the finale...

Cast

 * Pavel Derevyanko - Ivan Afanasievich Shiller
 * Konstantin Khabensky - Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov / tailor
 * Sergei Garmash - Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky, Governor
 * Nina Usatova - Anna Andreevna, wife of the governor
 * Sergei Kolesnikov - bailiff Christian Stepanovich Derzhimorda
 * Alexander Abdulov - Nozdryov
 * Victor Abrosimov - Prosecutor
 * Viktor Verzhbitsky - Leonty Vasilievich Dubbel
 * Vladimir Simonov - Alexander von Benckendorff
 * Roman Madyanov - Postmaster Ivan Kuzmich Shpekin
 * Alexander Semchev - Sobakevich
 * Leonid Yarmolnik - Plyushkin
 * Anna Ardova - Marfa Semyonovna, housekeeper
 * Andrei Bronnikov - Father Foma
 * Elena Galibina - Nastasya Petrovna Korobochka
 * Alexander Ilyin - Judge Ammos Fedorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin
 * Maxim Konovalov - Gregory, servant
 * Yuri Nifontov - Artemy Filippovich Zemlyannika, trustee of god-friendly institutions
 * Inga Strelkova-Oboldina - Marya Antonovna, daughter of the governor
 * Galina Petrova - Pulcheria Ivanovna
 * Vladimir Salnikov - Afanasy Ivanovich
 * Sergey Serov - Ivan Lazarevich Svistunov
 * Peter Soldatov - Captain Kopeikin
 * Daniil Spivakovsky - Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky
 * Ivan Agapov - Pyotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky
 * Mikhail Tserishenko - owner of the hotel
 * Yevgenia Dmitrieva - Lizanka, the wife of Manilov
 * Pavel Lyubimtsev - Manilov
 * Maria Sokova - Feodulia Ivanovna, wife of Sobakevich
 * Andrey Batukhanov - archivist
 * Daria Belousova - street girl
 * Sergey Epishev - sergeant / sentry
 * Olga Lapshina - Shpekin's wife
 * Dmitry Prokofiev - Stepan
 * Tatiana Yakovenko - Lizaveta
 * Roman Hardykov - judicial official