The Idiot

Directed by Ivan Pyryev
PG-13
1958    1h 56mDrama, History
7.66.4
In the carriage of a train heading to St. Petersburg, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, who returns 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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  • Yuriy YakovlevPrince Myshkin
  • Yuliya BorisovaNastasya Filippovna
  • Nikita PodgornyjGanya Ivolgin
  • Leonid ParkhomenkoParfyon Rogozhin
  • Raisa MaksimovaAglaya Yepanchina
  • Vera PashennayaGeneral Yepanshin's wife
  • Nikolai PazhitnovGeneral Yepanchin
  • Klavdiya PolovikovaNina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
  • Ivan LyubeznovGeneral Ivolgin
  • Lyudmila IvanovaVarya Ivolgina
  • Vladimir MuravyovFerdyshchenko
  • Sergei MartinsonLebedev
  • Pavel StrelinTrotsky
  • Grigoriy ShpigelPtitsyn
  • Galina SamokhinaAleksandra Yepanchina
  • Raisa KurkinaAdelaida Yepanchina
  • Tamara AzarovaDaria Alekseyevna
  • Ivan PyryevDirector / Writer
  • Fyodor DostoevskyNovel
  • Isaak BitsExecutive Producer

The Idiot Trivia

The Idiot was released on May 12, 1958.

The Idiot was directed by Ivan Pyryev.

The Idiot has a runtime of 1h 56m.

The Idiot was produced by Isaak Bits.

In the carriage of a train heading to St. Petersburg, Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin, who returns 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.

The key characters in The Idiot are Prince Myshkin (Yuriy Yakovlev), Nastasya Filippovna (Yuliya Borisova), Ganya Ivolgin (Nikita Podgornyj).

The Idiot is rated PG-13.

The Idiot is a Drama, History film.

The Idiot has an audience rating of 7.6 out of 10.

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