The Government Inspector Nikolai Gogol

Film

Films based on The Government Inspector include:

• Eine Stadt steht kopf, or A City Upside Down (1932), a German film directed by Gustaf Gründgens
• Revizor (1933), a Czech film directed by Martin Frič, starring Vlasta Burian
• Antek policmajster (1935), a Polish film directed by Michał Waszyński, starring Adolf Dymsza
• The Inspector General (1949), a Hollywood musical comedy starring Danny Kaye. The film bears only passing resemblance to the original play. Kaye's version sets the story in Napoleon's empire, instead of Russia, and the main character presented to be the ersatz inspector general is not a haughty young government bureaucrat, but a down-and-out illiterate, run out of a gypsy's travelling medicine show for not being greedy and deceptive enough.
• Afsar (1950), a Bollywood musical comedy directed by Chetan Anand
• Revizor (1952), USSR, directed by Vladimir Petrov.
• Ammaldar ("the Government Inspector") (1953), a Marathi film directed by P. L. Deshpande, set in the state of Maharashtra in India.
• Tamu Agung ("The Exalted Guest") (1955), an Indonesian film directed by Usmar Ismail, is a loose adaptation of Gogol's play. The story is set in a small village in the island of Java, shortly after the nation's independence. While not strictly a musical like its Hollywood counterpart, there are several musical numbers in the film.
• Anni ruggenti (Roaring Years) (1962), an Italian film directed by Luigi Zampa, starring Nino Manfredi. In the film, the story is transposed to a small town in South Italy, during the years of Fascism.
• Calzonzin Inspector (1974), a Mexican film directed and co-written by Alfonso Arau, using the political cartoonist/writer Rius's characters.
• Reviisori (1975), a Finnish straight adaptation.
• Incognito from St. Petersburg (1977),[10] a Soviet film by Leonid Gaidai
• De Boezemvriend ("The Bosom Friend") (1982), a Dutch film starring André van Duin. A musical comedy which is not so much an adaptation of Gogol's work, but a remake of The Inspector General. An itinerant dentist in the French-occupied Netherlands is taken for a French tax inspector.
• Revizor (1996), a Russian version with Nikita Mikhalkov playing the Mayor.

Television

In 1958 the British comedian Tony Hancock appeared as Khlestakov in a live BBC Television version (which survives).

The PBS series Wishbone adapted the story for an episode.

In 2002 the Iranian playwright and director Mohammad Rahmanian adapted a version for national TV called Bazres-e-kol.

Theatre

Fyodor Dostoyevsky played the postmaster Shpekin in a charity performance with proceeds going to the Society for Aid to Needy Writers and Scholars in April 1860.[11]

Inspecting Carol (1991) by American playwright Daniel J. Sullivan is a loose adaptation in which a man auditioning for a role in A Christmas Carol at a small theatre is mistaken for an informer for the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2005, the Chichester Festival Theatre produced a new version of the play translated by Alistair Beaton.

The UN Inspector (2005) by David Farr is a "freely adapted" version written for London's National Theatre called, which transposed the action to a modern-day ex-Soviet republic. Farr's adaptation has been translated into French by Nathalie Rivere de Carles and was performed in France in 2008.[12]

In 2006, Greene Shoots Theatre[13] performed an ensemble-style adaptation at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Directed by Steph Gunary (née Kirton), the acting used physical theatre, mime, and chorus work that underpinned the physical comedy. The application of Commedia dell'arte-style characterisation both heightened the grotesque and sharpened the satire.

In 2008, Jeffrey Hatcher adapted the play for a summer run at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. A slightly revised version of that adaptation played at Milwaukee Repertory Theater in September 2009.

In 2011, London's Young Vic Theatre presented a new version adapted by David Harrower, directed by Richard Jones, starring Julian Barratt, Doon Mackichan and Kyle Soller.

In 2011 the Stockholm City Theatre staged the play in an adaptation set in the Soviet 1930s.

In 2011 the Abbey Theatre, Dublin performed an adaptation by Roddy Doyle.

Also in 2012 the Residenz Theatre in Munich performed an adaptation by Herbert Fritsch with Sebastian Blomberg as Khlestakov.

In 2016 at the Yermolovoi Theater in Moscow there was a production by Sergei Zimliansky without words. The show was advertised as a comedy, in which music, costumes, dance, and movement by the actors tells the story in the absence of words.

The play was also revived by the Birmingham Repertory Theatre for a UK Tour in 2016 directed by Roxana Silbert. It toured New Wolsey Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool Everyman and Sheffield Crucible. This production was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award in Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre in the 2017 ceremony.

Operas

• Der Revisor (1907), by Karel Weis(s); probably an operetta.
• The Inspector General (1928) by Eugene (Jeno) Zádor; revised version first performed on 11 June 1971 by the Westcoast Opera Company at El Camino College in Los Angeles.
• Il Revisore (1940), by Amilcare Zanella; premiered in Trieste
• Der Revisor (1957), by Werner Egk (1901–1983); first performed at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the Schwetzingen Festival
• Dolazi revisor (1965), by Krešimir Fribec
• Chlestakows Wiederkehr (2008), by Giselher Klebe; first performed at the Landestheater Detmold
• The Inspector (2011), music by John Musto, libretto by Mark Campbell, set in 1930's Italy, first performed at Wolftrap.

Music

Incidental music (1926) by Russian Jewish composer Mikhail Gnessin.

Dance

Canadian Dance Company Kidd Pivot produced and toured with a dance-theatre performance Revisor based on the Gogol story (2019).[14]