The Inspector-General

The Inspector-General is a 1952 Soviet comedy film directed by Vladimir Petrov. Plot The film is based on the play The Government Inspector by Nikolay Gogol. Starring Igor Gorbachyov as Ivan Alexandrovich Khlestakov, the 'inspector general' (as I. Gorbachev) Yuriy Tolubeev as Mayor Anton Antonovich Skvoznik-Dmukhanovsky Anastasiya Georgievskaya as Mme. Anna Andreyevna Skvoznik-Dmukhanoskaya (as Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya) Tamara Nosova as Maria Antonovna Skvoznik-Dmukhanovskaya Alexander Polinsky as Pyotr Ivanovich Dobchinsky Vasiliy Kornukov as Pyotr Ivanovich Bobchinsky (as V. Kornukov) Sergei Blinnikov as Judge Ammos Fyodorovich Lyapkin-Tyapkin Mikhail Yanshin as Commissioner of Charities Artemy Filippovich Zemlyanika Erast Garin as Postmaster Ivan Kuzmich Shepkin Pavel Pavlenko as School Supt. Luka Lukich Khlopov (as P. Pavlenko) A. Guzeyev as Dr. Christian Ivanovich Hubner Aleksey Gribov as Osip Elena Ponsova as Ivanova, a sergeant's widow (as E. Ponsova) N. Timyakov as A Merchant Anastasiya Zueva as Fevonya Poshlyopkina (as A. Zuyeva) Vladimir Yershov as Gendarme (uncredited) References