Screenplay: Fiódor Dostoyevski

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Yevgeny Mironov · Vladimir Mashkov · Lidiya Velezheva · Olga Budina

Plot The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money...

Direction Lev Kulidzhanov

Cast Georgi Taratorkin · Innokenti Smoktunovsky · Tatyana Bedova · Maya Bulgakova

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Maria Schell · Marcello Mastroianni · Jean Marais · Marcella Rovena

Plot Luchino Visconti's utterly gorgeous 1957 picture, adapted from the Dostoyevsky story, is a rich, visually stunning masterpiece from the acclaimed filmmaker. "Le Notti Bianche" stars Marcello Mastroianni (in an early...

Direction Aleksandr Petrov

Plot It chronicles the experiences of a man that decided that there was nothing to live for in the world, and therefore was determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Isabelle Weingarten · Guillaume des Forêts · Jean-Maurice Monnoyer · Giorgio Maulini

Plot The 'dreamer' is Jacques, a young painter, who by chance runs into Marthe as she's contemplating suicide on the Pont-Neuf in Paris. They talk, and agree to see each other...

Direction Ivan Pyryev

Cast Yuriy Yakovlev · Yuliya Borisova · Nikita Podgornyj · Vera Pashennaya

Direction Pierre Léon

Cast Jeanne Balibar · Laurent Lacotte · Sylvie Testud · Bernard Eisenschitz

Plot Prince Myshkin, who has just returned to Russia, suddenly bursts into a soirée where nobody is expecting him. He has got it into his head to rescue Nastasya Filippovna, the...

Direction Robert Bresson

Cast Dominique Sanda · Guy Frangin · Jeanne Lobre · Jacques Kébadian

Plot A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Peter Lorre · Edward Arnold · Marian Marsh · Elisabeth Risdon

Plot Von Sternberg’s first film after leaving Paramount (and Dietrich) was this expressionistic riot based on the Dostoevsky novel, about student Peter Lorre (in his Hollywood debut) obsessed by a murder...

Direction Robert Siodmak

Cast Gregory Peck · Ava Gardner · Melvyn Douglas · Walter Huston

Plot A young writer goes to Paris. He meets in the train a young woman forced to marry a wealthy casino manager in Monte Carlo. His true love for the girl...

Direction Petr Zelenka

Cast Martin Mysicka · Michaela Badinková · Igor Chmela · Radek Holub

Plot A theatre company from Prague arrives in Cracow to present a stage adaptation of Dostoevskij's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" at the city's alternative drama festival; the production is to be...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Masayuki Mori · Setsuko Hara · Takashi Shimura

Plot Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Yul Brynner · Claire Bloom · Maria Schell · Lee J. Cobb

Plot This epic 19th-century Russian tale is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Four very different brothers growing up in a rural village in tsarist Russia plot against...

Direction Aleksandr Borisov

Cast Andrei Popov · Pantelejmon Krymov · Peter Suthanov · Zinaida Dorogova

Plot Adaptation of Euridice's Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Direction Leonardo Mouramateus

Cast Mauro Soares · Deborah Viegas · Daniel Pizamiglio · João Fiadeiro

Plot António runs away from home and tries to spend the night at his ex-girlfriend's apartment. There he finds a brazilian girl, an unexpected guest. Johnny is struggling to stage his...

Direction Piotr Dumala

Plot Crime and Punishment is a story of crime and love which hovers at all times between dreams and reality. Based on Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name, Dumala said of...

Direction Aki Kaurismäki

Cast Markku Toikka · Aino Seppo · Esko Nikkari · Hannu Lauri

Plot An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man apparently without motives, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Gregori Chmara · Elisabeta Skulskaja · Alla Tarasova · Andrei Zhilinsky

Plot Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind,...

Direction Julian Jarrold

Cast John Simm · Ian McDiarmid · Kate Ashfield · Geraldine James

Plot TV Miniseries. 2 Episodes. John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.

Direction Sasa Gedeon

Cast Pavel Liska · Anna Geislerová · Tatiana Vilhelmová · Jirí Langmajer

Plot Frantisek, the main character is returning to his family. Until now he's been, "successfully" avoiding all relationships. He is an ingenuous and a pure person and thus, is regarded as...