The Inspector-General
About The Inspector-General
Mayor Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky warns his officials that an inspector is traveling incognito, and Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky decide that broke clerk Ivan Khlestakov is that man. The mayor feasts him while Khlestakov, unable to pay his inn bill, plays along. A gendarme then announces the real inspector, and the officials freeze. Vladimir Petrov directed, with Yuri Tolubeyev as the mayor and Igor Gorbachyov as Khlestakov.
Cast & crew
More about The Inspector-General
The script follows Gogol's The Government Inspector, and Yuri Yekelchik photographed it. Wikidata lists 132 minutes and the year 1952, with no writer and no composer. Aleksei Gribov plays the servant Osip.
Themes
Look
Yuri Yekelchik photographed the Mosfilm comedy.
Notes
- Erast Garin plays postmaster Shepkin.
- Anastasia Georgievskaya plays the mayor's wife and Tamara Nosova their daughter.
- Khlestakov is bound for Saratov when he is stuck without money.
- The film's last image is the officials locked in shock, as in Gogol's silent scene.
Scenes
- Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky point to Khlestakov at the inn and the town believes them.
- A gendarme announces the actual inspector, and the officials freeze.
Influenced by
- Nikolai Gogol's play The Government Inspector
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1952. Ревизор.webm)
