From Page to Screen: Five Must-Watch Book Adaptations

Even when you don’t have enough time off to read your favorite book, you can still learn its plot. Together with the video service VOKA, we have compiled a selection of film versions of popular literary stories – movies based on books.

Cloud Atlas (2012)

A girl works as a disenfranchised waitress in future Seoul. A young man on the eve of World War II becomes a secretary to a brilliant composer. A journalist from the recent past investigates the problems of a nuclear reactor… This fantastic drama, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell, is about a chain of reincarnations that connects people from different eras.

The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Harvard professor Robert Langdon is suspected of a heinous crime he did not commit. Langdon meets Sophie Neveu, a Paris police cryptographer, and together they try to uncover a secret that could undermine the power of the Catholic Church. This detective thriller is based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown.

Beauty and the Beast (2014)

The merchant’s daughter Belle, not waiting for her father who left on business, goes in search of him and ends up in a castle where the Beast lives. For the father to return home, the daughter must stay in the palace with the Beast. But in the chest of the terrible Beast beats a heart capable of great love. This film version of the popular fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont stars Vincent Cassel and Lea Seydoux.

Genius (2015)

The story of a complex friendship between two very talented people: writer Thomas Wolfe and publisher Max Perkins, who introduced the world to great novelists such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. The film is based on the novel “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” by Andrew Scott Berg.

Dorian Gray (2009)

A mystery based on the novel by Oscar Wilde. Provincial youth Dorian Gray receives an inheritance from a rich grandfather. This gives him the right to enter London’s high society. The beautiful young man impresses not only the ladies but also the men. One artist paints his portrait, and Dorian, struck by the image, wishes to remain like this forever. Soon he notices that Dorian Gray in the portrait is aging, but in life remains just as young and beautiful.

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