Art style: 3D Pixar.
Close-up of quill writing «мёртвые души», camera tilts up vertically to Chichikov's face half lit by candlelight half in shadow, his charming smile fades into something colder and calculating, flame flickers. Single low cello note then silence.
SPOKEN LINE — AUTHORITATIVE, overrides any line quoted earlier in this prompt:
The only words spoken, in Russian, verbatim: "Русс...
