White Nights (1992 film)

White Nights
Russian: Белые ночи
Directed byLeonid Kvinikhidze
Written by
Produced byAlexander Golutva
Starring
CinematographyEduard Rozovsky
Music byMaksim Dunayevsky
Production
company
Release date
  • 1992 (1992)
Running time
92 min.
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

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.

Cast

Critical response

Leonid 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

  1. ^ Viktor Lisakovich. Мастерская И.П. Копалина. Страницы истории ВГИКа
  2. ^ Игорь Наджиев — Тени (1991)
  3. ^ Лучшие фильмы и сериалы с Галиной Польских
  4. ^ XX век представляет. Избранные
  5. ^ White Nights at the kino-teatr.ru

Literature

  • Alexander Burry, Frederick White (2016). Border Crossing: Russian Literature into Film. SC: Edinburgh University Press. p. 61. ISBN 9781474418454.