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# Vladimir Mirzoev on the new screen adaptation of Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/dostoevskii-ne-sluchaino-na-pervom-meste-v-reitinge-imdb-100-luchshikh-avtorov-vsekh-vremen-on-po-prezhnemu-ne-prosto-odin-iz-samykh-pechataemykh-i-chitaemykh-pisatelei-no-i-samyi-ekran/
- Published: 2024-01-22T18:29:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:44:31.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Cinema, Books, Moscow, Observations

It is no accident that Dostoevsky tops the IMDb ranking of the "100 Greatest Authors of All Time": he remains not merely one of the most published and most read writers, but also the most adapted for the screen. But why does it matter to go on adapting Russian literature when it already leads the world in the number of screen adaptations in the history of cinema?

This year we await yet another, this time a seven-part adaptation of "Crime and Punishment", starring Ivan Yankovsky, Lyubov Aksenova, Tikhon Zhiznevsky and Alena Mikhailova.

According to the director Vladimir Mirzoev, who spoke at the weekend at the "Russia" forum and exhibition at VDNKh about his adaptation of Fyodor Mikhailovich's novel for Kinopoisk, new adaptations of Dostoevsky are necessary for cultural renewal in the modern world: "A tradition must be renewed all the time, so that it remains alive. One must find in it endless novelty and changeability. Otherwise the tradition dies, it falls apart, and we simply perish."

In my view, the chief source of interest in Dostoevsky's works in world cinema, in one historical epoch after another, is precisely the need for a dialogue of cultures, the wish to look at the realities of one's own life set beside the great legacy of the classics. All the more valuable, then, is the attempt to transfer the plot to our own time and to see Dostoevsky's world in the everyday life of the twenty-first century