The Idiot
“A major work of Dostoyevsky...”
6.7/ 10 29 votes 1958-05-12 1h 56m 1 popularity
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...
Director: Ivan Pyryev
Yuriy Yakovlev
Prince Myshkin
Yuliya Borisova
Nastasya Filippovna
Nikita Podgornyj
Ganya Ivolgin
Leonid Parkhomenko
Parfyon Rogozhin
Raisa Maksimova
Aglaya Yepanchina
Vera Pashennaya
General Yepanshin's wife
Nikolay Pazhitnov
General Yepanchin
Klavdiya Polovikova
Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
