The Idiot

(1958)Directed by Ivan Pyryev116 minDrama
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...

Yuriy Yakovlevas Prince Myshkin
Yuliya Borisovaas Nastasya Filippovna
Nikita Podgornyjas Ganya Ivolgin
Leonid Parkhomenkoas Parfyon Rogozhin
Raisa Maksimovaas Aglaya Yepanchina
Vera Pashennayaas General Yepanshin's wife
Nikolay Pazhitnovas General Yepanchin
Klavdiya Polovikovaas Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
Ivan Lyubeznovas General Ivolgin
Lyudmila Ivanovaas Varya Ivolgina
Vladimir Muravyovas Ferdyshchenko
Pavel Strelinas Trotsky
Galina Samokhinaas Aleksandra Yepanchina
Raisa Kurkinaas Adelaida Yepanchina
Tamara Azarovaas Daria Alekseyevna
Alfreda Girutskayaas (uncredited)