Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Born November 11, 1821 · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Died February 9, 1881 · aged 59

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 …

Known For

The DoubleThe Double · 2014
The Double
★ 6.52014
MovieThrillerDrama
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.
White NightsWhite Nights · 1957
White Nights
★ 7.41957
MovieDramaRomance
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
SaawariyaSaawariya · 2007
Saawariya
★ 5.52007
MovieDramaMusic
Two souls arrive in a small town, one on vacation, the other to meet a lover. They spend the most magical dream-like days of their lives in that town... with each other.
Mad LoveMad Love · 1985
Mad Love
★ 5.71985
MovieDramaCrime
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
Four Nights of a DreamerFour Nights of a Dreamer · 1972
Four Nights of a Dreamer
★ 7.11972
MovieDramaRomance
Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.
The IdiotThe Idiot · 1951
The Idiot
★ 7.01951
MovieDramaRomance
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. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
White NightsWhite Nights · 1960
White Nights
★ 7.71960
MovieDramaRomance
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. He gets to know and falls in love with a young woman, but the love remains unrequited as the woman misses her lover, with whom she is finally reunited.
Norte, the End of HistoryNorte, the End of History · 2014
Norte, the End of History
★ 7.42014
MovieCrimeDrama
An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her two children wander the countryside in search of some kind of redemption.

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