The Idiot (1958)
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
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Yuriy Yakovlev as Prince Myshkin |
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Yuliya Borisova as Nastasya Filippovna |
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Nikita Podgornyj as Ganya Ivolgin |
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Leonid Parkhomenko as Parfyon Rogozhin |
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Raisa Maksimova as Aglaya Yepanchina |
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Vera Pashennaya as General Yepanshin's wife |
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Nikolai Pazhitnov as General Yepanchin |
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Klavdiya Polovikova as Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina |
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Ivan Lyubeznov as General Ivolgin |
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Lyudmila Ivanova as Varya Ivolgina |
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Vladimir Muravyov as Ferdyshchenko |
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Sergei Martinson as Lebedev |
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Pavel Strelin as Trotsky |
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Grigoriy Shpigel as Ptitsyn |
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Galina Samokhina as Aleksandra Yepanchina |
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Raisa Kurkina as Adelaida Yepanchina |
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Tamara Azarova as Daria Alekseyevna |
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Alfreda Girutskaya as (uncredited) |
| Camera | Valentin Pavlov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Novel |
| Directing | Ivan Pyryev | Director |
| Writing | Ivan Pyryev | Writer |
| Editing | Anna Kulganek | Editor |
| Art | Stalen Volkov | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Konstantin Savitsky | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anna Patenovskaya | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Nikolai Kryukov | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Vladimir Meybom | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Evgeniya Indlina | Sound Director |
| Writing | Grigoriy Mariamov | Script Editor |
| Writing | Mikhail Matusovsky | Lyricist |
| Directing | Vladimir Semakov | Assistant Director |
| Visual Effects | Boris Aretskiy | VFX Director of Photography |
| Visual Effects | Lyudmila Aleksandrovskaya | VFX Artist |
| Directing | Yuriy Danilovich | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Guseyn Akhundov | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Anatoliy Baranov | Third Assistant Director |
| Production | Isaak Bits | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Veronika Dudarova | Conductor |
| Art | Dilyara Ozerova | Assistant Production Design |