Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky
Released: February 2, 1981Runtime: 87 minLanguage: RU
Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoyevsky was entered on February 16th at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dostoyevsky's death on February 9th, 1881, and won a "Best Actor" award for Anatoly Solonitsyn as Dostoyevsky. Solonitsyn was a favorite actor in Andrei Tarkovsky's films, and this was to be his penultimate role. This brief imaginary period in the famed Russian writer's life encapsulates one of his darker moments in 1866. At that time he was still a relatively unknown writer whose first widely acclaimed work, Crime and Punishment, was just on the horizon. His life was at a very low ebb as he struggled with debts he could not pay, and as he fought depression over the loss of his wife to tuberculosis, and the death of his brother, who was very close to him. His first literary journal had to be scrapped because of political reasons, and the second venture needed funding.
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Anatoliy Solonitsyn
as Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevskiy
Evgeniya Simonova
as Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina
Ewa Szykulska
as Appolinariya Suslova
Nikolai Denisov
as Misha - zhenikh Anny
Yuriy Katin Yartsev
as Kontorskiy sluzhashchiy
Evgeniy Dvorzhetskiy
as Pasha Isayev
Tatyana Babanina
as Feodosiya
Oleg Chayka
as Kopytin - student
Valeriy Klimov
Yuri Komarov
as Stolonachalnik
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