The Idiot
Идиот
Release: 1958-05-12
·Runtime: 116m
·★ 6.4
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Galina Samokhina
as Aleksandra Yepanchina
Ivan Lyubeznov
as General Ivolgin
Grigoriy Shpigel
as Ptitsyn
Vera Pashennaya
as General Yepanshin's wife
Lyudmila Ivanova
as Varya Ivolgina
Sergei Martinson
as Lebedev
Yuriy Yakovlev
as Prince Myshkin
Vladimir Muravyov
as Ferdyshchenko
Raisa Kurkina
as Adelaida Yepanchina
Yuliya Borisova
as Nastasya Filippovna
Nikita Podgornyj
as Ganya Ivolgin
Raisa Maksimova
as Aglaya Yepanchina
