Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky (1981)

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky

1981

1h 27m

4.5

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Overview

Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoyevsky was entered on February 16th at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dostoyevsky's death on February 9th, 1881, and won a "Best Actor" award for Anatoly Solonitsyn as Dostoyevsky. Solonitsyn was a favorite actor in Andrei Tarkovsky's films, and this was to be his penultimate role. This brief imaginary period in the famed Russian writer's life encapsulates one of his darker moments in 1866. At that time he was still a relatively unknown writer whose first widely acclaimed work, Crime and Punishment, was just on the horizon. His life was at a very low ebb as he struggled with debts he could not pay, and as he fought depression over the loss of his wife to tuberculosis, and the death of his brother, who was very close to him. His first literary journal had to be scrapped because of political reasons, and the second venture needed funding.

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Production Countries

Soviet Union

Spoken Languages

Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title	Двадцать шесть дней из жизни Достоевского
Release Date	February 2, 1981
Status	Released
Language	RU
IMDb ID	tt0132932