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From: The Moscow Times (Russia)
Date: 20040514
Author:John Freedman

John Freedman
The Moscow Times (Russia)
05-14-2004
URL: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/
Much of the enthusiastic disorder of Dostoevsky's novel is lost in Wajda's
conventional production
Andrzej Wajda, the great Polish filmmaker, staging the great Russian
novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in an adaptation by the influential French existentialist
Albert Camus at the Sovremennik Theater, one of Moscow's most popular playhouses.
What a combination!
However, there is no getting around this: Not all combinations work,
no matter how intricate, no matter how promising. Wajda's production of
"The Devils," ...

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