The Idiot

Overview

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...

Directed by Ivan Pyryev

Top cast

Yuriy Yakovlev

Prince Myshkin

Yuliya Borisova

Nastasya Filippovna

Nikita Podgornyj

Ganya Ivolgin

L

Leonid Parkhomenko

Parfyon Rogozhin

Raisa Maksimova

Aglaya Yepanchina

Vera Pashennaya

General Yepanshin's wife

N

Nikolay Pazhitnov

General Yepanchin

Klavdiya Polovikova

Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina

Ivan Lyubeznov

General Ivolgin

Lyudmila Ivanova

Varya Ivolgina

Vladimir Muravyov

Ferdyshchenko

Sergei Martinson

Lebedev

P

Pavel Strelin

Trotsky

Grigoriy Shpigel

Ptitsyn

Galina Samokhina

Aleksandra Yepanchina

Raisa Kurkina

Adelaida Yepanchina

T

Tamara Azarova

Daria Alekseyevna

A

Alfreda Girutskaya

(uncredited)

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