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Director:
Vladimir Bortko
Writers:
Vladimir Bortko (writer)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
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Release Date:
12 May 2003 (Russia) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince... more
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Awards:
2 wins more
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Ben Whishaw: A Spotlight On The Play ...some trace of her
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A jeweler's masterpiece more (13 total)

Cast

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)
Yevgeni Mironov ... Prince Myshkin
Vladimir Mashkov ... Parfyon Rogozhin
Lidiya Velezheva ... Nastassya Filippovna
Olga Budina ... Aglaya Yepanchina
Inna Churikova ... Lizaveta Prokof'yevna
Oleg Basilashvili ... General Yepanchin
Vladimir Ilyin ... Lebedev
Aleksandr Lazarev Ml. ... Ganya Ivolgin
Andrei Smirnov ... Totsky
Anastasiya Melnikova ... Aleksandra Yepanchina
Rasina Tsydalko ... Adelaida Yepanchina (as Rosina Tsidulko)
Sergei Muchenikov ... Yepanchin's Footman
Aleksei Petrenko ... General Ivolgin
Mikhail Boyarsky ... Keller
Larisa Malevannaya ... Nina Aleksandrovna
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Additional Details

Runtime:
550 min
Country:
Russia
Language:
Russian
Color:
Color

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Version of Návrat idiota (1999) more

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16 out of 17 people found the following comment useful.
A jeweler's masterpiece, 6 January 2007
Author: Vincentiu from Romania

I don't know if it is a good film. But, for certain ,it is a masterpiece.

For Dostoievsky's universe the words are unavailing. The comments are only games of vain ambition, trips in narcissistic nooks. The biography, the verdicts are slices of personal vision and not search of truth.

Dostoievsky is expression of his work. And his books are the territory of a well-organized world.

This film is the exceptions of my remarks. "Idiot" is a jeweler's achievement. Every nuance, every detail is careful polished. It is a example of to restore a masterpiece. A subtle acting, a gorgeous Lev Myshkin, a spectacular script. In fact, the result of a terrible fight between novel and film, between word and image, expression of Bortko's deep respect for a magnificent creation.

It is so remarkable for his art that the beginning of East European pride is made. But this film is not TV product. It is foretaste of a impressive spirituality, of a special refuge, about the price of illusion in Russian space, about the relation with a far Occident.

The first value of film is the language. Soft, worm, subtle, old, it is the atmosphere of a fascinating time and space, a literature and belief. Is it too little?

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