Dostoevsky (TV series)

Movie
German title	Dostoevsky
Original title	Достоевский
Country of production	Russia
original language	Russian
Publishing year	2011
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Director	Vladimir Chotinenko
script	Eduard Volodarsky
production	Sergei Melkumow , Sergei Shumakov , Natalia Gorin
music	Alexei Aigi
camera	Ilya Demin
cut	Maxim Polinski
occupation
Yevgeny Mironov : Fyodor Dostojewski Tschulpan Khamatova : Marija Isajewa , his first wife Alla Yuganova : Anna Snitkina , his second wife Olga Smirnowa : Apollinaria Suslowa Darja Moros : Sascha Schubert, actress Alexander Domogarow : Alexander Isajew Valentina Talysina : Alexandra Kumanin, Dostoyevsky's aunt Yuri Stepanov: officer in prison Katerina Wasiljewa: Avdotja Panayeva Evgenija Bordsilowskaja: Mrs. Martha, nanny Dmitri Pewzow: Stepan Janowski Irina Rosanow: Lisaweta Korwin-Krokowskaja Maxim Vinogradov: Dostoyevsky as a young man Vladimir Simonov: Turgenev Valery Kucharezhin: Nekrasov Alexander Petrow : Perow , painter Sergei Taraman: Mikhail Dostoevsky Daniel Sandberg: Solovyov

Dostoevsky is a multi-part Russian television film . The biopic produced in 2010 for the Russian state broadcaster Rossija 1 tells the life story of the writer Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostoevsky (1821-1881).

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The film plot spans the period from the mock execution of the Petraschewzen (1849) to the years shortly before Dostoyevsky's death, in which he wrote the novel The Brothers Karamazov . Each episode begins with the scene in which Dostoevsky sits for the famous portrait painted by Vasily Perov . In the 8-part Russian original version, the episodes show - historically not true to all details - the following events, among other things:

1. Dostoyevsky's mock shooting, his imprisonment in Siberia
2. Dostoyevsky's time as a soldier in Siberia, his love affair with Marija Isajewa
3. Dostoyevsky's return to Petersburg, his attempt to re-establish himself as a writer, his troubled marriage and his love for the actress Schubert
4. Dostoyevsky's problematic marriage, his love for Polina Suslowa, the end of the magazine that he ran with his brother Michail, his trip to Wiesbaden
5. Dostoyevsky's meeting with Suslowa in Paris, his new gambling in Baden-Baden, the death of his brother Mikhail and his wife Marija
6. Dostoyevsky's plan for the novel The Gambler , his collaboration with Anna Snitkina
7. Dostoyevsky's marriage to Snitkina, his new gambling in Baden-Baden, his falling out with Turgenev, and the birth of his first child
8. Dostoyevsky's family life and his further artistic rise

The film shows Dostoevsky as a complex personality with complex thoughts that particularly come to the fore in the conversations he has with other intellectuals in the film. At the same time, the film has a strong emphasis on Dostoevsky's struggle with poverty and even more so on his love affairs. His literary work takes a back seat. These shortcomings are outweighed by the quality of the staging.

Production and performance history

The main actor, Yevgeny Mironov, was already seen in 2003 as Prince Myshkin in the Russian television series The Idiot .

The film was shown for the first time in Russia from May 22-26, 2011. In Germany, Arte began broadcasting a German dubbed version on December 5, 2013. In the Russian original version the film consists of eight episodes, in the German version seven episodes.

literature

• Kaspar Heinrich: Three hazelnuts for Dostoevsky , Die Zeit, December 5, 2013

Web links

• Dostoevsky in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Dostoevsky in Rossiya 1 (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Dostoeyevsky (2010). Retrieved December 16, 2013 .