The Government Inspector

Nikolai Gogol

⏱ 9 minDrama

A shabby, crooked town mistakes a penniless, feather-brained clerk for the dreaded inspector travelling incognito, and buries him in bribes and flattery, until the truth arrives in a famous tableau of frozen terror. Gogol's immortal satire of corruption.

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