When Pawlikowski visited the Dostoevsky Museum in St Petersburg, he learned that Dostoevsky's only descendant, Dimitri, was still alive. The director found Dimitri in Germany and, after agreeing to pay him a thousand pounds, began filming. After their first meeting, the director thought that Dimitri "had grown a beard to look more like a Dostoevsky and I thought, a great face, ... (展開全部)