White Nights (Italian: Le notti bianche, French: Nuits blanches) is a 1957 romantic drama film directed by Luchino Visconti, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1848 short story of the same name.

It was written for the screen by Visconti and Suso Cecchi d'Amico, and stars Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, and Jean Marais.

When Mario spots Natalia the next night, she initially runs away from him, explaining that she did not want him to think she was an easy woman for arranging to meet a strange man.

When a dashing man rented a room in her grandmother's house, they eventually fell in love, but then he left suddenly, promising to return in one year.

As they wander around town, it begins to snow, and they both get caught up in the romance of the situation, until they return to the bridge and Natalia recognizes the man standing on it as the tenant.

According to academic Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, "In turning the Dostoevsky story into a film, Visconti got rid of the first-person narration and made the girl less of an innocent and, in fact, at times something of a hysteric and a tease.

In the film, the hero is left alone, befriending the same stray dog he met at the beginning, back at square one, with no sense that the love he briefly felt has transformed him in any way.

The entire film was shot on a soundstage at Cinecittà Studios in Rome on an elaborate set that recreated the streets, stores, waterways, and monuments of Livorno.