Dead Souls (1909)

Original title

Мёртвые души

Directed by

Pyotr Chardynin

Genre

comedy film, silent film

Country

Russian Empire

Runtime

8 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man tries to buy dead serfs from their owners to use as collateral for a loan. The scheme leads to a series of awkward encounters with landowners.

slapstickwhimsicalunderstatedstagedsilent-eraabsurdmorbidslow

What happens

Dead Souls, (Russian: Мёртвые души) is a 1909 Russian short comedy directed and written by Pyotr Chardynin. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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