THE COLLECTIVE “THE IDIOT”: ON THE SCREEN ADAPTATION OF F. M. DOSTOEVSKY’S NOVEL
The article is systematized experience of screen adaptations of the novel “The Idiot” by F. M. Dostoevsky in globe cinema. The chronological frameworks are the first screen adaptation at the dawn of Russian cinema (1910, dir. Chardynin) and the pioneering work of the Estonian director Rainer Sarnet (2011). An overview of novels’s cinema fate is preceded by thoughts about dramatic plasticity of the great writer works. This character defines a steady interest to his work among cinematographers. We can talk about some common tags, on the language of cinema they give the visibility, the timelessness of one of the finest characters of Dostoevsky. Experiments with decorations from different eras and cultural contexts in which heroes are placed by different directors, allow us to talk about a special collective contribution of the cinema art to the decoding of the writer’s philosophy.
Keywords: globe cinema, F. M. Dostoevsky, cinema language, literature, screen adaptation, cultural codes
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Issue: 2, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 2
Rubric: ARTICLES
Pages: 65 — 74
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