Word: dostoievski
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...descends to jargon. A. G. Haas, who reviews 'It Happened at the Inn," seems unable to control a breakaway imagination. In discussing an innocuous, modest film he manages not only to give a short history of French and Russian motion pictures but to drag in such assorted people as Dostoievski, Gogol, Daphne du Maurier, and T. S. Eliot...
...Sachs first met his fellow Viennese in 1904. Sachs was then a law-school graduate bored with the law, fascinated by literature and, especially, by the psychological insights of Dostoievski. "I hoped to tread in broad daylight the obscure and labyrinthine paths of passion which he had traced." At this point, Sachs came upon Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. "I said to myself that these stupendous revelations needed and merited the most complete scrutiny; even if it should in the end turn out that every theory advanced in its pages were wrong, I would not regret the loss...
Thousands of people, who disliked their propaganda, recognized in these films a fresh burst of the fierce, Russian creative energy, which, 50 years before, produced Dostoievski, Turgenev, Tolstoi in literature. Ten years later people still went to see them again and again, just as they reread the great Russian novels...