The Picture of Dorian Gray

Everyone around is crazy about the perfect beauty of Dorian Gray: the artist Basil Hallward painted his portrait, and women throw themselves around his neck. How can one not fall under the influence of Sir Henry Wotton? This cynic and aesthete becomes Dorian's «demon» and helps him overcome his pangs of conscience, after which Dorian can no longer distinguish between good and evil. He abandons his loving girlfriend and drives her to death, and from then on, his life is a series of endless wickedness and crimes. Only the portrait reminds him that no transgression will go unpunished. The face of the living Dorian is still beautiful — he is doomed to eternal youth. But the face in the portrait becomes more and more disfigured with each new crime…