The Idiot

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The Idiot

based on novel or book dostoevsky

The Idiot

Release Date: May 12, 1958

Year    :   1958
Slogan    :   «A major work of Dostoyevsky...»
Genres    :   Drama
Production Companies    :   Mosfilm
Director    :   Ivan Pyryev
Producers    :   
Writers    :   Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Pyryev
RunTime    :   116 mins.

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 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...


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