ABSTRACT
Film history seems to demonstrate that literary adaptations always have less to offer than literature. Looking at results alone — these are two different media and for this reason their ability to produce expressive richness lies in different areas — does not show the way out. One must above all go back to the common root of film and books: that is telling stories. People tell a story about something. They do this in an epic, a dramatic way, or in forms not specifically categorizable, always according to the circumstances. This is the process.
