Ф. Достоевский - Fyodor Dostoyevsky "My Russia" (Peter Ustinov)

[dbinder1980]

Awesome :) thanks for this

[keghamminas]

What a noble head of a genious writer-philosopher who has illuminated humanity

for ever . Great upload .

[Travellmaster]

A true champion of the Russian soul. What a great and deep thinker. Carried out and forwarded so wunderful. Very, very good

[RJJR15]

This video is amaizing.A great philosopher was Dostoevsky and i admire his work mostly because of that.While i was watching the video i realised that the inspiration for this kind of dialog is Dostoevsky novel ,,Demons,,.About the same thing is arguing in this video,the strenght of the Orthodox Russia who must stand on its feet and lead the whole Europe.I would say that this character in video is for me familliar with Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovensky from the Demons.The same philosophy they have

[Fleshious]

This is absolutely surreal.

[VicodinAddicted]

amazing video

[MrCaioliz]

wonderful video,it' a shame that I don't know to speak Russian,yeah he is the better writter of asll times!

[auchandy]

Got a good actor, then an Ustinov, got urself one good 6:46 clip.

Know anyone whom the Dostoevsky is?

[4487rowu]

omg... i thought i was living at the living Dostoyevsky.. they look so alike!

[cantavoidtrite]

"suffering purifies everything". Does he mean suffering eases guilt?

[lorrainewands]

@cantavoidtrite I think that perhaps what Dostoyevsky meant pertained more to the end result of suffering than to what occurs during suffering. I do not believe that he meant that suffering is pleasant, but that the idea that in the end, one will have emerged purified as a result. Think of how silver is made perfect; it is inserted into a raging heat and is not permitted to emerge until it clearly reflects the image of its maker. It has been purified, but it has endured great pain, so to speak.

[MisteryGuitarBoy]

I haven't read many of Dostoyevsky's books but the idea that suffering is purifying, and that a certain pleasure may be in suffering is present in his "Notes From The Underground". Also, the mood of "Dostoyevsky"'s speech and the philosophy presented in this dramatisation deeply relate to that of the - fictional (as said in Dostoyevsky's commentary) - character which discourses in the first part of this work. I'm not sure how distanced from Dostoyevsky's is this "fictional" character's persona

[sanantoniomimi]

fantastic!

what an actor

and BRAVO to USTINOV

[blueguitarblue]

Wunderbar! Beautiful performance...

[NightEldar]

красота! А чего Устинов по-русски не говорит?

[fosterbg369]

But i want to talk 5 min with Dostoyevsky too!

[TheMatthewGardiner]

'Suffering purifies everything.' Not sure whether this is a direct quote of Dostoyevksy's, but nonetheless a very interesting idea; even as an atheist, this seems to ring true. Thoughts?

[EnigmataTH]

@TheMatthewGardiner I'm almost certain this was said in The Brothers Karamazov in the Devil's speech to Ivan in his madness. I'm not sure, but it was maybe said in the Idiot too. I've only read those two books and Insulted and Humiliated, but I know I've come across it at least once. As for my thoughts on the quote, I'm kind of a cynical guy, so I take that as saying suffering is is the best way to go because in the end you'll come out a better person. Maybe F. meant something else?

[xORIGINx]

@EnigmataTH Maybe he did mean something else. I often hear some people claim that Dostoevsky's statement is Calvinistic, but I disagree. Calvinism is too simple and naive to be an idea that Dostoevsky would stand behind. That's what I like about Dostoevsky's philosophy, it is dynamic. I would even argue that it is more dynamic than Hegel. Reading Dostoevsky is like staring your humanity in it's true face - I get no such impression from Hegel.

[MrConstantin808]

хорошо сыграл,я почти поверил.

[centerbark]

Can anyone see this imaginary conversation taking place in the 20th Century? Would FD have been the same man if he were a contemporary of Freud and Einstein?

[aravindh2002]

This left me speechless.

[tasteism]

@aravindh2002 Yes, but what else could one expect, when the great Peter Ustinov is taking part in it.

[Kirillov23]

@ThePureEvil27 You ought not to wish that.His time has long past...I hope you have also read a whole lot of other writers as you are assessing that Dostoievsky is the greatest novelist of all times.

[paleandso]

Hmm... I think he's got beautiful eyes, not scary ones. Well, there's a little insanity in them but...

[StravMishkin2]

Dostojevsy lives ... A unique genius of eternal wisdom. The shadow of immortal writer has fallen upon this Russian actor who marvelously penetrates in the mysterious character of this creative artist, moralist and neurotic. Great exciting moments from Saint Peterburg of Saint Dostojevsky!

[blueguitarblue]

@StravMishkin2 The most beautiful performance...

[blueguitarblue]

@StravMishkin2 The most beautiful performance...

[gruziya]

Умом Россию не понять,

...

...

О ней лишь можно тихо ПЛАКАТЬ.

[MuddyTonic]

loved it.

[2868able]

Brilliant.

[drayagoshe20]

I wacthed a russian movei 20 years ago 26 DAYS OF DASTAYOVSKIES LIFE

i read nearlly all his books in persian he is the greatest

[RobbyWithNoIE]

that is some great acting

[Helios601]

Having read a number of the great writers over the years i.e. Gogol, Tolstoy, Proust, Bulgakov, Hugo, Voltaire et cetera, Dostoevsky to me embodies every such matter under the sun, and pulls strings on so many levels, and does it with such striking genius, that I am weak kneed with admiration. Truly, his work is food for the soul. Has there ever been a finer writer than Fyodor? I'm struggling to find one, but I'll keep on reading.

[Helios601]

After reading 'The Karamazov Brothers' he may well be thee greatest of them all.

[XYZTanya]

I watched it 100 times and it still seems so true, so 'dostoyevskylike'... strange feeling.

[armandosancris]

Muy buena la actuacion del ruso, pero el viejo estupido ingles por que no aprendió algo de ruso. es algo gracioso escuchar como uno le pregunta en ingles y el otro responde en ruso. no tiene sentido. pero muy buen video.

[CE750]

brilliant!

[valerpng]

thank you for this

[Askmymotherwhy65]

Great revelations! Thank you for the priceless moments to feel it once again!In my city Novokuznetsk there is still a home where he lived, being in exile. <3

[IamMichi21]

Nice!!! loved the acting :)

[13Andrianna]

Thanks great video

[RottingAlive]

This is pretty interesting because the man portraying Dostoyevsky looks almost exactly like him. It's eerie.

[Loge84]

Great! Great! Great! Reading all his works i associate with a complex element like fire, whose power is the same time consuming and purifying, distructing and live giving, just like the greatness of Dostojewski.

Watching this vid one one just cant disagree with the sentence of M. Bulgakov that "Dostojewski is immortal" ( in "Master and Margarita)

Thank You for uploading this!

[kimuraone]

The scene's last minute is very sympathetic.

[myshkin012]

Love what D says about Tolstoy. And at the end, about himself being insane but wanting to appear normal... a perfect description of himself and of many of his characters.

[pugnaciousboxer2]

I don't agree with Dostoevsky that "suffering leads to purification". I believe one can exist without suffering, as the Buddhists espouse. There does not need to be a dichotomy between suffering and happiness. Granted, I still appreciate Dostoevsky's great literature. I've only read Crime and Punishment, and Dostoevsky's dialogue captures the underlying messages in it (i.g., the Christian Orthodox notion of suffering being a necessity).

[thelastbulgarian]

@pugnaciousboxer2 however, even the buddhist monk must have suffered greatly first in order to achieve his peaceful existence. A good modern example of Dostoevsky, and one who clears much up for us by writing about our own culture and times, is David Foster Wallace. A good book is Infinite Jest. In fact, you'll find the same ideas being preached at any local AA meeting.

[Jitpring]

They couldn't have found a better actor to play D.

[xORIGINx]

@Jitpring Yes, I was surprised at how good that was.

[johnnymagic10]

@Jitpring like who?

[Sortsylic]

@Jitpring Holy cow...When I saw a preview picture the first thing I've thought is "ghosts"

[dodobrazil]

Peter Ustinov was great as Nero in Qvo Vadis. One of my favourite actors! And Dostoievski, what can I say about that russian genious? He is the law! The law is Dostoievski, nobody perpetred in truth as deeper as him.

[realysadclown]

I absolutely love this video...Found it accidentaly by misspeling ... The person who created this had to read all of Fyodors books ..and understand him very deeply..as just few people do.... I can not imagine better portray of his personality .... But it is just my view of reality........

[boibu1]

tolstoy would own dostoyevsky

[gloi2]

ofcourse

[wheredoescouragecome]

Could anyone verify a question I've had re: Dostoevsky's dialogue here: is it maybe paraphrased from things the man actually said? As in, letters, A Writer's Diary, even conversation.... ?

[Jitpring]

This is a distillation of much of D's thought found throughout his work.

[treid100182]

Dostoevsky is, and will always be, the greatest writer of all time. This is ILushas Rock.

[PetrosArgonaut]

@treid100182 indeed

[AngelaBellucci]

@treid100182 I agree with you.

[ErichoTTA]

He really gives some great points about Jesus.

[Dellfuze]

who is the male actor acting as dostoyevsky?

[NECTG16]

It's Olegar Fedoro. Though this is from 1986. For his recent work, I recommend "The Blockade" (2006). He's a "real" actor, but he's done some things to pay the bills as well, such as playing the russian guy in the leather jacket who goes "let's roll" in Hackers. (1995) hahaha that was the best part of the movie too.

[Joyeuseful]

A truly beautiful clip- both emotionally and philosophically. I do very much wish they had Ustinov's "Russia" series available in its entirety in America. I checked online and I couldn't find anything, like the posters above. On the bright side, there is another clip from the series featuring an interview with Galileo Galilei available on Youtube. I found it quite good.

[TheMatrixAussie]

Dysdercus.

[Elunaj]

the actor has evil-eyed look and ,,mysterious eyes" unbelievable deepness

[mapp2tube]

This is very good, and thanks so much for sharing! Hope to see more films on this great writer of Russia.

[cosmicincognito]

yeah, I'd love to see more of Dostoyevsky too!!! He's a legend! amd If I had a time machine I would meet him first!! =:D lol

[KajiCarson]

Oh, I agree. =D The very fact that a being like Dostoyevsky once existed says a lot about the human condition.

[andreybelinskiy]

This is the only fragment from "Russia" series filmed in 1986 available here.

Could anyone suggest where to find the full video?

[mycalamitousapplause]

yeah aesthetically he does, i hope d. wasn't as creepy tho..

[madhattery341]

@mycalamitousapplause somehow i don't think he was creepy. All his great works are, despite being full of suffering, also funny. I feel like socially he was probably witty and pleasant, despite all his torments.

[erm12345678910]

lol. some people think this is real?! but anyway, quite interesting. im reading the great man's biography at the moment, and yes he did find happiness in suffering. This video touches on the hatred he felt for nihlism without over doing it, im not sure he thought of those who sentenced him to death as 'idiots' though, it was the Tsar afterall and he said he deserved it because it was what the people would have wanted. Great acting, love the bit at the end, very human

[aviomaster]

-- Super interesting writer ,,

[olegschramm]

Yeah, this will never make past obscure channels. It makes you think. And "think" - is the last thing, that anybody wants you to do, especially people in charge of our lives... I am fluent in both languages, and this is brilliant! To whoever posted this - big Thank you, and to LucDan

[Jitpring]

Wow. They couldn't have found a more perfect actor to play Dostoevsky.

[carlos3345]

Es probablente el escritor más grande de todos los tiempos

[XcPromise]

No this is definitely fake, there's a video of him meeting Galileo who was three hundred years before Ustinov's time. It's a shame that this video is being cited as a source on wikipedia, this fake video.

[madeye0]

Calling you idiot in this context would be an insult to idiots. So I'll call you Burdovsky instead.

[neochristsavant]

poseur v

[XcPromise]

I don't understand how they managed to meet, Dostoyevsky died before Ustinov was born. Is this video real?

[Cantonovcantonov]

Are you American?

[XcPromise]

I was under the impression that others thought it was real, read the posts below my first one. I did not, for one second, think this was real, but was correcting others. I've said nothing about this supposed program, or the channel that it was played on, and no, I am canadian.

[TomMonty81]

New modern feature version of "notes from the underground" now on my channel.

[theGermexican]

12345senha.

of course he felt that way.

[crucialkon]

wow i read almost all his books and this time i get to see him .this is the first time thanks

[12345senha]

I don´t think Dostoyevsky trully thought that the only way to achieve happiness.

I mean, look at "The dream of a ridiculous man."

If that story does not express how Dostoyevsky felt about happiness, then he is the best liar I´ve ever seen.

[XcPromise]

Learn to finish your sentence, you don't think Dostoyevsky truly thought that the only way to achieve happiness is what?

[SCHneiDen777]

is this the only kinda of video on youtube about Fedor Dostoyevsky's bio? MORE! MORE!

[gruziya]

What a treat and revelation... I stopped breathing while watching it!.. Such great thing can only make people of genius. Anybody knows more about this?

[Rockyface]

amazing!!! i loved every second of it. what is this for?