The Idiot

05/12/1958

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1hr 56min

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Drama

A major work of Dostoyevsky...

STORY

The film is based on the first part of the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated in a psychiatric clinic. On the train, on the way to St.Petersburg, the prince meets Parfyon Rogozhin, who tells him of his passionate love for Nastasya Filippovna, the former containment woman of the millionaire Totsky. In St.Petersburg, the prince finds himself in the house of his distant relative – Lizaveta Yepanchina (General's wife), meets her husband, their daughters, as well as the Secretary of General – Ganya Ivolgin. The portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, accidentally seen on the general’s table, makes a great impression on the prince...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Yuriy Yakovlev
  • Yuliya Borisova
  • Nikita Podgornyj
  • Leonid Parkhomenko
  • Raisa Maksimova

    Director

  • Ivan Pyryev

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Mosfilm

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian