White Nights (Russian: Белые ночи, romanized: Belye nochi) is a 1992 Russian film directed by Leonid Kvinikhidze based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky.[1] The events of the picture are moved to the present day, the 1990s.
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| Russian: Белые ночи | |
| Directed by | Leonid Kvinikhidze |
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| Produced by | Alexander Golutva |
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| Cinematography | Eduard Rozovsky |
| Music by | Maksim Dunayevsky |
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Running time | 92 min. |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
Cast
edit- Vadim Lyubshin as Mitya
- Anna Matyukhina as Nastya
- Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. as tenant
- Galina Polskikh as Nastya's aunt
- Vitaly Usanov as Redhead
- Igor Nadzhiev as singer[2]
- Pavel Kornakov as episode
Critical response
editLeonid Kvinikhidze's film is one of the best roles of Galina Polskikh according to Film.ru.[3]
According to Russian film critic Mikhail Trofimenkov, this film adaptation was unsuccessful.[4]
- Alexander Fedorov: Screening the story of Fyodor Dostoevsky White Nights, Leonid Kvinikhidze transferred its action to St. Petersburg in the early 90s of the twentieth century. In theory, additional meanings, unexpected parallels should have arisen, the original author's vision of the material should have appeared. In my opinion, this did not happen. Acting does not go beyond the scope of an ordinary melodrama, and the philosophy of the great Russian classic has dissolved in a banal and instructive modernized plot.[5]
References
editLiterature
edit- Alexander Burry, Frederick White (2016). Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film. SC: Edinburgh University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9781474418454.
External links
edit- White Nights at IMDb