Fyodor Dostoevsky

Enter Prince Myshkin, a young epileptic returning to St. Petersburg, whose childlike innocence and radical compassion are immediately mistaken for idiocy. His purity sets the stage for a devastating love triangle involving two women who represent Russia’s warring soul: the haunting, self-destructive beauty, Nastasya Filippovna, whom Myshkin loves with a selfless, spiritual pity, and the […]

A solitary, nameless young man—a Dreamer—wanders the luminous, sleepless streets of St. Petersburg during the magical summer phenomenon of the White Nights, his existence confined entirely to his own elaborate fantasies. His lonely routine is shattered when he meets Nastenka, a young woman crying by the canal, recently saved from harassment, who is waiting desperately […]