Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky (Двадцать шесть дней из жизни Достоевского) 43 years old

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.

Credits

Yevgeniya Simonova as

Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Fyodor Dostoevsky

Yuri Medvedev as

Ewa Szykulska as

Yuri Katin-Yartsev as

Yevgeni Dvorzhetsky as

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky Cast

Name	Character
Yevgeniya Simonova She was 25, now 68 years old
Anatoliy Solonitsyn He was 46, 47 years old when he died	as Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yuri Medvedev He was 60, 71 years old when he died
Ewa Szykulska She was 31, now 74 years old
Yuri Katin-Yartsev He was 59, 72 years old when he died
Yevgeni Dvorzhetsky

Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky Crew

Name	Department
Aleksandr Zarkhi as Director. He was 72 (88) years old when He died	Directing
Vladimir Vaynshtok as Screenplay.	Writing
Pavel Finn as Screenplay. He was 40 (now 83) years old	Writing

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Twenty Six Days in the Life of Dostoevsky (43 years)

Release day: Monday, February 02, 1981
Runtime: 87 minutes