The Idiot
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$19.99
- SKU: 32166
- Availability: In Stock
- Label(s): CP Digital , Студия "2 - Б-2"
- Subtitles: English
- Languages: Russian
- Format: 4:3
- Soundformat: Dolby Digital 5.1
- Genre(s): Drama , Classic films , TV Series
- Year of release: 2003
- Recording length: 500 min.
- 4 DVD Set
- Cast Александр Домогаров, Мария Киселева, Лидия Вележева, Ольга Будина, Михаил Боярский, Евгений Миронов, Анастасия Мельникова, Алексей Петренко, Александр мл. Лазарев, Владимир Машков, Олег Басилашвили, Инна Чурикова, Владимир A. Ильин
- Music Игорь Корнелюк
- Producer Валерий Тодоровский
- Director Владимир Бортко
- Art Director Владимир Светозаров
Count Myshkin comes back to Russia from Switzerland where he was under care in psychiatric hospital. He meets Parfen Rogozhin on a train on his way to St.Petersburg. Rogozhin tells Myshkin about his passionate love for Nastasia Filippovna who used to be a kept-woman of millionaire Totsky. When the count gets to Petersburg, he comes to the house of his distant relative Epanchina who is a wife of a general. Myshkin meets Epanchina’s husband, their daughters, and general’s secretary Ganya Ivolgin. Nastasia Filippovna’s portrait that was accidentally spotted by the count on the general’s table creates a big impression on Myshkin…
This incarnation of "The Idiot" is arguably the first which portrays Dostoyevsky’s entire novel; earlier versions have focused on only the first part, or the main storyline. No effort was spared in reproducing period detail; several museums provided fabric and lace for the costumes.