Dead Souls
The Screenplay
Nikolai Gogol author Alex Cox author Gianni Garko author Constance Garnett translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oldcastle Books Ltd
Published:5th Nov '26
Should be back in stock very soon
An Ace Double paperback featuring the screenplay to Alex Cox's 'last' film - Dead Souls - plus the original Nikolai Gogol text.
Dead Souls, directed by and starring Alex Cox, is a surreal, lean, meditative, low-budget Spaghetti Western adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's classic novel, transposed to the 19th-century American West, that feels both literary and rebellious.
The film follows Strindler (Alex Cox), a conniving preacher buying up names of deceased Mexicans, blending political satire on greed and corruption with meta-humour, stop-motion, and musical numbers.
The story mirrors Gogol's original novel, set in a dusty, morally bankrupt frontier town where Strindler travels, collecting the names of 'dead souls' to gain power and money.
An old anarchist's nostalgic fantasia, blending Western themes in thewake of contemporary politics that he can't quite rationalize * National Review *
Dead Souls makes for a riotous swan song * New York Times *
Ragged, witty and politically sharpened * Arts Fuse *
A diverting and watchable love letter to the spaghetti west of the movies, and a satirical thorn in the flesh of Trumpian politics. -- Guardian
an offbeat and proudly political riff on the spaghetti Westerns of old that serves as an inspired summation of the themes and attitudes that have driven his work throughout the years -- Peter Sobczynski * rogerebert.com *
ISBN: 9780857306395
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
512 pages