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Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (UK: /ˌdɒstɔɪˈɛfski/, US: /ˌdɒstəˈjɛfski, ˌdʌs-/; Russian: Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, tr. Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, IPA: [ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj] (listen); 11 November 1821 – 9 February 1881), sometimes transliterated as Dostoyevsky, was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist. Dostoevsky's literary works explore the human condition in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmospheres of 19th-century Russia, and engage with a variety of philosophical and religious themes. His most acclaimed novels include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). His 1864 novella, Notes from Underground, is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. Numerous literary critics rate him as one of the greatest novelists in all of world literature, as many of his works are considered highly influential masterpieces.
Born in Moscow in 1821, Dostoevsky was introduced to literature at an early age through fairy tales and legends, and through books by Russian and foreign authors. His mother died in 1837 when he was 15, and around the same time, he left school to enter the Nikolayev Military Engineering Institute. After graduating, he worked as an engineer and briefly enjoyed a lavish lifestyle, translating books to earn extra money. In the mid-1840s he wrote his first novel, Poor Folk, which gained him entry into Saint Petersburg's literary circles. However, he was arrested in 1849 for belonging to a literary group, the Petrashevsky Circle, that discussed banned books critical of Tsarist Russia. Dostoevsky was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted at the last moment. He spent four years in a Siberian prison camp, followed by six years of compulsory military service in exile. In the following years, Dostoevsky worked as a journalist, publishing and editing several magazines of his own and later A Writer's Diary, a collection of his writings. He began to travel around western Europe and developed a gambling addiction, which led to financial hardship. For a time, he had to beg for money, but he eventually became one of the most widely read and highly regarded Russian writers.
Dostoevsky's body of work consists of 13 novels, 3 novellas, 17 short stories, and numerous other works. His writings were widely read both within and beyond his native Russia and influenced an equally great number of later writers including Russians such as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Anton Chekhov, philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre, and the emergence of Existentialism and Freudianism. His books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and served as the basis for many films.
Most Popular Fyodor Dostoevsky Trailers
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01 January 1989
The film is based on the story of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. A sad story about how the demagogue and idler Foma Opiskin lived in the house of Colonel Rostanev, took possession of the souls and minds of educated, intelligent people.
15 June 1992
During the Yugoslav break-up, Federal Army officer is fed up with war and takes some leave in Belgrade.
03 April 2014
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
07 December 1994
Ramón, a psychologically unstable university student from Lima, murders his landlords, who constantly demanded the payment of the monthly rent for the hovel in which he lives.
10 September 1979
Performance at the Maly Theater from the novel by the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky.
24 February 1988
Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence.
14 August 2014
A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life.
26 July 1968
A collection of intimate television short stories based on well-known literary works.
14 October 1974
The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures.
01 January 1979
A comedy divided in four episodes, set in different time periods, each starring a different couple, yet all facing the same issue: marital jealousy.
19 December 1969
Politician Priyanath forces Sunita for prostitution. She is abducted by the gangster Ranjan, but latter involves and falls in love with Sujit.
01 April 1993
An impoverished Russian aristocrat spends his days in a fashionable German town waiting for news from Russia about the death of his rich grandmother, so that he can repay his debts to a troubled French adventurer and marry his troubled cousin.
14 November 1957
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
22 October 1947
A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.
13 April 2012
Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.
01 January 1988
Dream (1988) is a somnambulist short about dreams taking over reality and rendering protagonists inactive.
20 February 1958
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly.
02 December 1983
Former student Rahikainen is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Rahikainen struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
27 February 1985
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him.
12 December 2000
In the last house just behind the western borders of Russia, between Paris/Texas and Korleput/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Cindy Sherman, Dogma 95 and Duma 2000, Frank Castorf directs his virst video production "Dämonen" ("Demons") as a sort of post-Soviet-panslavistic panopticon in his own dramaturgy based on Dostojewski's "Demons" and Camus' "The Posessed".
19 March 2005
Based on the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.
01 January 2016
The Brothers Karamazov novel is the epitome of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s creative work, the acme of the philosophic investigation carried out by this colossal and restless mind throughout his life.
01 January 2027
A man driven by isolation and a nihilistic view decides to end his own life, but on the eve of his fateful decision, a chance encounter with a lone woman leads him to a fantastical dream that challenges his own ideologies.
02 October 1991
This story is full of images and context, even though it is a simple story about a crocodile that ate a disagreeable man, it turns out that also addresses the problem of property and economic principles.
16 April 2002
Based on the story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a ballet by Yevgeny Rostovsky, choreographed by Vladimir Romannovsky.
01 January 2019
A chance encounter backstage. Broken glass and a shared cigarette bring two strangers together. Three nights in which they learn to overcome social hierarchies and unrequited love.
02 March 1946
B-movie film noir take on Crime and Punishment. A college student gets deeper and deeper in trouble when he takes a loan from a shady college professor.
28 January 2004
After losing her job, an unstable woman sinks further and further into a violent fantasy world.
05 February 2010
About that time, altogether for no definite reason, I took it into my head to cripple my life, but only in as disgusting a way as possible.
24 November 2023
Blue in Green is a jazz-fused and highly stylized depiction of a nighttime wanderer, who is instantly intrigued by the sight of another lonely and heartbroken soul.
27 August 1969
When his young wife commits suicide with no explanation, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together.
23 May 1951
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama.
25 March 1999
The first film of New York-based French director Raphael Nadjari is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky's The Gentle Creature, which had also inspired Une Femme douce of Robert Bresson.
02 February 1972
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
26 February 2026
On Christmas Eve, Alexandre, a lonely young man burdened by his own emotional defenses, invites Guilherme—a male escort who has just been kicked out of his home—to stay at his house.
18 July 2026
Jan, a withdrawn programmer, works at a successful IT company while struggling with social anxiety. His world is turned upside down when a new employee, Vuk-Janko, joins the company looking exactly like him and gradually begins to take over his life.
01 January 1981
In 1976, the Czech New Wave philosopher and director Evald Schorm came to the Na zábradlí Theatre. He stayed there for twelve years, until his death.
17 September 2015
They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises.
01 January 1915
The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky.
01 December 1990
Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.
11 October 1991
In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lazarus, Martha, Mary, Adam, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa d'Avila, reciting the Divine Comedy.
10 January 1969
The tragic story of the Karamazov family takes place in a Russian province in the late 19th century. The relations of their father and three brothers are very complicated and contradictory.
17 November 2004
A husband whose young wife has committed suicide meets for the first and last time his Russian mother-in-law who has arrived to collect the coffin.
01 January 1967
A tragic story of an uneasy marriage between a young girl and an elderly, crotchety man who cannot understand or approach her.
19 February 1960
Based on the short story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it is about a young man living in Saint Petersburg who suffers from loneliness.
01 January 1989
A TV play based on the novel by F.Dostoevsky's "Double. The Petersburg poem". The film uses music from the works of A.
24 June 1958
Vassili Mikhailovich Ordynov, a poor and reclusive young man, must look for new accommodation. By chance, he meets a middle-aged man, Mourine, and a young woman, Catherine, who accepts him as a sub-tenant.
13 May 2015
A washed up Hollywood director is trapped in a remote castle by his own fears until the arrival of a mysterious woman offers him possible salvation.
26 October 1958
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children.
06 June 2006
Unites grotesque elements, tempo, quiet dream sequences, the thrill of a detective story, but above all, he manages to capture the temperature of an actor ensemble that throws itself into the world of Dostoyevsky with immense pleasure and passion.
26 October 1923
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
09 November 1996
A grieving man tries to find the cause of his young wife's suicide by spending the night next to her dead body and bringing back memories from their past.
27 October 2009
Conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the Staatskapelle Berlin performs THE GAMBLER, Prokofiev's moody, roiling opera based on a story by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
01 April 1994
Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a conversation over the dead body of Nastassya Filippovna.
