
The Idiot ·ИдиотA major work of Dostoyevsky...
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...
- Release Date
May 12, 1958
- Popularity: 0.2398
- 25 votes
- Directed by
Ivan Pyryev
- Productions
Mosfilm (SU)
- Budget
Revenue: NA
Duration: 1h 56 min
Top Cast
- Yuriy YakovlevЮрий Яковлев
Prince Myshkin
- Yuliya Borisova
Nastasya Filippovna
- Nikita PodgornyjНикита Подгорный
Ganya Ivolgin
- Leonid Parkhomenko
Parfyon Rogozhin
- Raisa MaksimovaРаиса Максимова
Aglaya Yepanchina
- Vera Pashennaya
General Yepanshin's wife
- Nikolai Pazhitnov
General Yepanchin
- Klavdiya PolovikovaКлавдия Половикова
Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
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