Twenty six days in the life of Dostoevsky | DRAMA | FULL MOVIE

★ Silver Bear for Best Actor (Anatoly Solonitsyn), Berlin International Film Festival (1981)

Facing a contract that would cost him nine years of his own copyrights, Dostoevsky hires a young stenographer and dictates The Gambler to her in under a month. The film watches that working arrangement turn into the marriage that steadied the rest of his life, folding scenes from the novel into the frame.

Why it's free: Free on Mosfilm's own channel; Mosfilm holds the rights to the Soviet-era library it publishes.