White Nights (1957) - a film by Luchino Visconti

A beautiful film about obsession, love, and loneliness, Luchino Visconti¿s White Nights (1957) is based on Fyodor Dostoevsky¿s short story of the same name. In Italian with English subtitles.Prof. Saskia Ziolkowski will introduce the film which is being screened as the third in a series of three films of world cinema by Italian directors, drawing on literary works by Julio Cortázar, Giorgio Bassani, and Fyodor Dostoevsky, offered by the Tavola Italiana in collaboration with Prof. Ziolkowsi's First Year Seminar on the theme of Adaptation: Cinema & Literature. The other films in the series are Antonioni's 'Blow-up' (September 1) and De Sica's 'Garden of the Finzi-Continis' (September 21).