

The Idiot
1958 · 116 min · Drama
A major work of Dostoyevsky...
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
- Writers
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Pyryev
- Released
- May 12, 1958
- Language
- Russian
Cast

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
Nikolai Pazhitnov
General Yepanchin

Klavdiya Polovikova
Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina

Ivan Lyubeznov
General Ivolgin

Lyudmila Ivanova
Varya Ivolgina

Vladimir Muravyov
Ferdyshchenko

Sergei Martinson
Lebedev
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