White Nights (1959)

St. Petersburg, bright summer nights. On the banks of the Neva River, the main protagonist meets a girl named Nastenka. She tells him that her fiancé has disappeared. Then, the young pair fall in love and decide to get married. But soon, Nastenka's former lover reappears and Nastenka forgets about her new acquaintance…

The movie, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novella of the same name, was directed by award-winning Soviet director Ivan Pyryev. He received awards for the movie at film festivals in London and Edinburgh.

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