VENICE, Calif. Wolf Mankowitz’s The Bespoke Overcoat is a theatrical adaptation of “The Overcoat,” a short story written in 1842 by the Ukrainian-born Nikolai Gogol, who along with Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Gorky is one of the most renowned contributors to Russian literature.
The Overcoat (1926), directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, will be screened as part of Gogolalia a workshop on Gogol, sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. Live piano accompaniment by Andrew Lovett (Department of Music).
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