The Idiot

IMDb link: 0051762
IMDb rating: 7.6 (991 votes)
Genres: Drama, History
Director: Ivan Pyrev
Cast: Yuriy Yakovlev, Yuliya Borisova, Nikita Podgorny, Vera Pashennaya and others

Release date: 21 Jul 1960
Release year: 1958
Runtime: 122 minutes
Country: Soviet Union
Keywords: 19th century, 1860s, russia, one word title, epilepsy, based on novel

Plot:

In the carriage of a train heading to St. Petersburg, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, returning to Russia after four years of treatment in a Swiss sanatorium, meets the wealthy merchant Parfyon Rogozhin. From him, Myshkin first hears about a certain Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova, a former kept woman of the nobleman Totskiy.

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