Ivan PYRIEV Иван ПЫРЬЕВ Ivan PYRIEV   USSR, 1959, 97 mn  Colour, fiction

The White Nights ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Белые ночи    Les Nuits blanches  Belye nochi

Plot synopsis

Screen version of the novel of the same name by F.M. Dostoyevsky. Petersburg of the 40s of XIX century. Summer, the white nights. On the bank of Neva the Dreamer meets Nastenka. During five nights walking around the city the young people tell each other about themselves. Having lost faith in the feelings of the man she loves Nastenka promises the Dreamer to marry him but... the other man appears and Nastenka is happy again, and the Dreamer is alone. Now his loneliness is more depressing as he realizes the richness of life and emptiness of his dreams.
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Selected in the following festivals :

- Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2010

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2003

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