Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Age : 47 | Popularity : 7%

Yevgeniya Simonova

Age : 69 | Popularity : 6%

Ewa Szykulska

Age : 74 | Popularity : 5%

Yuri Katin-Yartsev

Age : 72 | Popularity : 7%

Nikolai Denisov

Age : N/A | Popularity : 11%

Elena Kononenko

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Yuri Medvedev

Age : 71 | Popularity : 4%

Vladimir Pitsek

Age : N/A | Popularity : 6%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Aleksandr Zarkhi
Writing	Screenplay	Pavel Finn Vladimir Vaynshtok
Camera	Director of Photography	Vladimir Klimov
Art	Production Design	Lyudmila Kusakova
Sound	Music	Irakli Gabeli
Department	Role	Name

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