
The Idiot
# A major work of Dostoyevsky...
π Overview:
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 β Lizaveta Yepanchina (General's wife), meets her husband, their daughters, as well as the Secretary of General β Ganya Ivolgin. The portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, accidentally seen on the generalβs table, makes a great impression on the prince...
π Languages Available:
Russian
π Date Released:
1958-05-12
β Running Time:
116 mins
β Vote Average:
6.625
Beloved Cast

Prince Myshkin
Yuriy Yakovlev

Nastasya Filippovna
Yuliya Borisova

Ganya Ivolgin
Nikita Podgornyj

Parfyon Rogozhin
Leonid Parkhomenko

Aglaya Yepanchina
Raisa Maksimova

General Yepanshin's wife
Vera Pashennaya

General Yepanchin
Nikolai Pazhitnov

Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
Klavdiya Polovikova

General Ivolgin
Ivan Lyubeznov

Varya Ivolgina
Lyudmila Ivanova

Ferdyshchenko
Vladimir Muravyov

Lebedev
Sergei Martinson

Trotsky
Pavel Strelin

Ptitsyn
Grigoriy Shpigel

Aleksandra Yepanchina
Galina Samokhina

Adelaida Yepanchina
Raisa Kurkina

Daria Alekseyevna
Tamara Azarova