Turkish filmmaker Zeki Demirkubuz is adapting “Notes from Underground,” Fyodor Dostoevsky’s groundbreaking 19th century novel, for his newest directorial effort, which he is currently shooting in the Turkish capital. Filming for the movie, called “Yeralt” (Underground), has been under way for four weeks now, with actor Engin Gnaydn, praised for his portrayal of a small-town man in the Taylan Brothers’ critically acclaimed 2009 dark comedy “Vavien,” in the leading role. Demirkubuz, the director of such acclaimed movies as “Kader” (Destiny) and “Kskanmak” (Envy), said the long screenplay for the new film was a loose adaptation of Dostoevsky’s existential novella. Speaking at a press conference in Ankara on Thursday to promote his film, Demirkubuz said that at first “Notes from Underground,” which is in the form of an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, isolated and unnamed narrator who is a retired civil servant living in St. Petersburg, served only as an inspiration for ...