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The Idiot

The Idiot

IMDB:

6.4
The Idiot

Released

5/12/1958

Duration

1h 56m

Genre

Drama

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgornyj

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 – 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

Yuriy Yakovlev

Yuliya Borisova

Nastasya Filippovna

Yuliya Borisova

Nikita Podgornyj

Ganya Ivolgin

Nikita Podgornyj

Leonid Parkhomenko

Parfyon Rogozhin

Leonid Parkhomenko

Raisa Maksimova

Aglaya Yepanchina

Raisa Maksimova

Vera Pashennaya

General Yepanshin's wife

Vera Pashennaya

Nikolai Pazhitnov

General Yepanchin

Nikolai Pazhitnov

Klavdiya Polovikova

Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina

Klavdiya Polovikova

Ivan Lyubeznov

General Ivolgin

Ivan Lyubeznov

Lyudmila Ivanova

Varya Ivolgina

Lyudmila Ivanova

Vladimir Muravyov

Ferdyshchenko

Vladimir Muravyov

Sergei Martinson

Lebedev

Sergei Martinson

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