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The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

submitted by isosceles

1 decade 4 years 10 months 3 weeks ago

"The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.

This BBC production called "The Dream" (1990) was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". "The Dream" is a monologue. The director was Norman Stone ("Shadowlands") and it stars Jeremy Irons.

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(I posted this as a playlist, so all the videos should play sequentially and automatically... i'm flagging it as "long" despite the first clip being just a few minutes, assuming one would watch the whole thing.)

10 Comments

nice find here bud!

Thanks!

Moving this video to isosceles's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

*quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by Deano.

*dead

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by vaporlock.

Awarding jonny with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

*length=27:51 *british *cinema

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 27:51 - length declared by jonny.

Adding video to channels (British, Cinema) - requested by jonny.

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