Russian Lit Adaptations

World renowned choreographer Boris Eifman, offers a remarkable vision of the core ideas of the novel "The Brothers Karamazo", expanding upon them through body language as a way of exploring the origins of the moral.

The Brothers Karamazov was Dostoyevsky's final novel. Ostensibly, it's about parricide. But Dostoyevsky was far more concerned with the internal choices we all have before us and how our choice of focus determines the course of our lives.

Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastery, the other - a gambler, and the third - an intellectual, work out their problems in 19th century Russia.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student, kills a pawnbroker and her sister. Police suspect him after his outbursts. His family arrives, followed by suitors. He befriends a clerk's daughter, Sonia, a prostitute who urges him to confess.

Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated for a mental illness for several years. In St. Petersburg, he ends up in the house of his distant relatives. He finds himself in a cycle of passions and intrigues.

The devil and his attendants visit Moscow at the times of the Stalin regime. Official atheistic ideology confronts with a series of supernatural events.

Two gentlemen of fortune from the times of Imperial Russia are looking for an uncountable treasure at the dawn of the Soviet Union age.

Two scoundrels try to find twelve dining room chairs, into one of which a fortune in jewellery was sewn.

In the wake of the Russian revolution, Professor Preobrazhensky rescues a starving dog from the gutter, and attempts to transform him into a man. Based on Mikhail Bulgakov's novel of the same name.

Dramatization of the final novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. After their mother's death, the radically different Karamazov brothers face the complicated factional feuds that erupt after their father takes a new bride.

Based on a novel by a world-famous writer Feodor Dostoevsky.

In the carriage of a train heading to St. Petersburg, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, who returns to Russia after four years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, meets the wealthy merchant Parfyon Rogozhin. From him, Myshkin first hears about a certain Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, a former kept woman of the nobleman Totskiy.

Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.

The unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.