A feature of this documentary series is its participants.
The well-known philologist-dostoevist Igor Volgin, if possible, avoiding personal judgments, uses the text. Text of letters, memoirs, notes, diaries of Fyodor Mikhailovich and those around him. Words from the first person conveys Boris Plotnikov, whose game is fantastically penetrating, sometimes so much that you can completely forget that before you is not Dostoevsky himself.
12 episodes of the film tell a story that begins with the ancestors of the writer and ends with his last minutes. You can see how much the author’s life was connected with his work, with the display of this life in the books he wrote, how one supported the other and was not conceived without each other.
The film is good, both for acquaintance with creativity, and for a deeper perception of already read texts. You will see the cities in which Dostoevsky lived and worked, “hear” the letters he sent, and even if you are more than familiar with the biography of the great writer, this film will bring it to life.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky has always been a special writer, a great writer; his work is not like anyone, as his life, which was so different from the life of writers of that time.
What exactly makes him so special? What events inevitably left an imprint on his work? Is it possible to understand such a complicated and complicated person?
For lovers of listening and ready to feel.