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  1. From neorealist Italian auteur Luchino Visconti to South Korean critic-turned-director Jung Sung-il, filmmakers have managed to maintain the essence of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1848 short story ...

  2. Le notti bianche (White Nights) is a loyal adaption, directed by a neo realist Luchino Visconti, of the short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story is fascinating and Visconti wasn't the only one who adapted it; Robert Bresson and Ivan Pyrjev made films based on it as well.

  3. only two Russian entries and Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche (1957) carry Dostoevskii’s title.2 Perhaps even more surprising than the sheer number of adaptations, half of which were released in the twenty-first century, is the language distribution: Russian and Hindi tie for the most with three each, fol-

  4. White Nights (Italian: Le notti bianche, French: Nuits blanches) is a 1957 romantic drama film directed by Luchino Visconti, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story of the same name. It was written for the screen by Visconti and Suso Cecchi d'Amico , and stars Maria Schell , Marcello Mastroianni , and Jean Marais . [ 2 ]

  5. White Nights: Directed by Luchino Visconti. With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais, Marcella Rovena. A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.

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    • Drama, Romance
    • Luchino Visconti
    • 1961-05-28
  6. Jan 7, 2017 · You will have noticed, in these opening moments of Le notti bianche (White Nights, 1957), how everything looks scrupulously real yet ever so slightly false. Adapting an 1848 novella by Fyodor Dostoevsky of the same name, Luchino Visconti transposed the action from the canals of Tsarist St Petersburg to the back streets of 1950s Livorno – to ...

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  8. Jul 11, 2005 · Le notti bianche is a particularly successful example of the mixture of freedom and respect with which he and his scriptwriters approached their task. It takes its title and its basic plot from Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1848 short story.

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