The Idiot

Aug 7, 2008

1h 0m

★ 6.5

Overview

Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Baba Yaga Films

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Cast

Nastassya Filippovna

Jeanne Balibar

Prince Myshkin

Laurent Lacotte

Darya Alexeyevna

Sylvie Testud

Totsky

Bernard Eisenschitz

General Epanchin

Pierre Léon

Ferdyshchenko

Jean Denizot

Ganya

Serge Bozon

Rogozhin

Vladimir Léon

Ptitsyn

Martial Salomon

Lebedev

Renaud Legrand

Medical student

Maurice Thomas

Keller

Benjamin Esdraffo

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