The Idiot

Plot

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... read more

  • Ivan Pyryev

    Director

  • Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Novel

  • Ivan Pyryev

    Writer

  • Valentin Pavlov

    Director of Photography

  • Anna Kulganek

    Editor

  • 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

  • Pavel Strelin

    Trotsky

  • Grigoriy Shpigel

    Ptitsyn

  • Galina Samokhina

    Aleksandra Yepanchina

  • Raisa Kurkina

    Adelaida Yepanchina

  • Tamara Azarova

    Daria Alekseyevna

  • Runtime

    116 minutes

    Released

    1958-05-12

    Languages

    Pусский

    Countries

    Soviet Union

    Studios

    Mosfilm

    Sound

  • Nikolai Kryukov

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    12 days ago

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