White Nights - 1959
- Director Ivan Pyrev
- Product Code: NA-7012-DRA-LTS
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A masterwork of romantic fatalism, Belye nochi (1959), directed by Luchino Visconti, is a visually exquisite adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story White Nights. Set in a dreamlike, artificial port city suspended between realism and theatrical illusion, the film follows Mario, a solitary young man who encounters Natalia, a fragile yet hopeful woman waiting faithfully for a lover who once promised to return.
Over the course of four luminous nights, their conversations unfold with emotional delicacy and restrained intensity. As Mario gradually falls in love, Natalia remains suspended between memory and expectation. Visconti transforms Dostoevsky’s introspective prose into an operatic meditation on loneliness, illusion, romantic idealism, and the painful beauty of unfulfilled love.
Renowned for its stylized set design and poetic cinematography, the film stands as one of Visconti’s most intimate works — a melancholic reverie about fleeting connections and the ache of impossible devotion.
| Work Record | |
| Original Title | Belye nochi |
| Title | White Nights |
| Year | 1959 |
| Direction | Ivan Pyrev |
| Countries of origin | Soviet Union |
| Gender | Drama, Romance |
| Colors | Colorful |
| Cast | Lyudmila Marchenko, Oleg Strizhenov, Anatoli Fedorinov, Svetlana Kharitonova, Yakov Belenkiy, Evgeniy Morgunov, Vera Popova, Ariadna Shengelaia, Irina Skobtseva, I. Udras, Sergei Troitsky |
| Duration | 95 Min. |
| Edition Record | |
| Language | Russian |
| Subtitle | Spanish, English, Portuguese, Romanian |
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