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The Idiot (1946)
Directed by Georges Lampin
Drama · 1h 41m
Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
Cast
Gérard Philipe
Prince Miouchkine
Edwige Feuillère
Nastasia Philipovna
Lucien Coëdel
Rogogine
Sylvie
Madame Ivolvine
Jean Debucourt
Totsky
Nathalie Nattier
Aglaé Epantchine
Jane Marken
Naria
Marguerite Moreno
General Elisabeth Prokovievna Epanchine
M
Maurice Chambreuil
General Epantchine
Michel André
Gania Ivolvine
Elisabeth Hardy
Sophie Ivolvine
Roland Armontel
Luliane Timofeevich Lebediev, the drunkard
Crew
- Director
- Georges Lampin
- Writer
- Georges Raevsky, Charles Spaak
- Novel
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Director of Photography
- Christian Matras
- Original Music Composer
- Maurice Thiriet
- Editor
- Léonide Azar
Details
- Original title
- L'Idiot
- Release date
- 1946-06-07
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Films Sacha Gordine