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Released
2014 · FILM

Dostoevsky Behind Bars

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Runtime
56 min
BiographyCrimeDocumentary

Synopsis

University graduate students and prison inmates meet weekly to discuss literature and share personal essays and stories. Classroom sessions and interviews explode the stereotypes of brutish convicts, out-of-touch scholars and callous prison staff, while offering viewers a sense of hope. Shot on location in a minimum-security facility in Wisconsin, this feature-length documentary pays homage to the power of the humanities, the art of teaching and the possibility of redemption for those shunned by society

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Principal cast & crew: 3

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Edited by Marc KornblattShot by William RoachScored by Joshua Hopkins

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