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The Idiot (1958)
Directed by Ivan Pyryev
“A major work of Dostoyevsky...”
Drama · 1h 56m
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
Yuriy Yakovlev
Prince Myshkin
Yuliya Borisova
Nastasya Filippovna
Nikita Podgornyj
Ganya Ivolgin
L
Leonid Parkhomenko
Parfyon Rogozhin
Raisa Maksimova
Aglaya Yepanchina
Vera Pashennaya
General Yepanshin's wife
N
Nikolai Pazhitnov
General Yepanchin
Klavdiya Polovikova
Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
Ivan Lyubeznov
General Ivolgin
Lyudmila Ivanova
Varya Ivolgina
Vladimir Muravyov
Ferdyshchenko
Sergei Martinson
Lebedev
Crew
- Director
- Ivan Pyryev
- Writer
- Ivan Pyryev
- Novel
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Director of Photography
- Valentin Pavlov
- Original Music Composer
- Nikolai Kryukov
- Editor
- Anna Kulganek
Details
- Original title
- Идиот
- Release date
- 1958-05-12
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm