Films Based on Nikolai Gogol Works (Study Guide): The Overcoat, the Inspector General, the Night Before Christmas, Taras Bulba, the Lost Letter

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: The Overcoat, the Inspector General, the Night Before Christmas, Taras Bulba, the Lost Letter, Viy, Dead Souls. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Overcoat (animated film) - Upon finishing his film Tale of Tales in 1979 Norshteyn decided that the next project for his small team (consisting of himself as the animator and director, his wife Franchesca Yarbusova as the artist and his friend Aleksandr Zhukovskiy as the cinematographer) would be an approximately 60-minute-long film based on Gogol's short story The Overcoat. Norshteyn has said that he considers The Overcoat to be as important a work of literature for him personally as one of the chapters of the Bible. By 1981, when work on the film began, Norshteyn had been working at Soyuzmultfilm (the main Soviet...