The Idiot
2003•16+•1 Seasons•10 Episodes•7.8•Ended
Drama
The Idiot (Идиот) is a 2003 Russian costume drama television serial written by Vladimir Bortko, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel of the same title. In corrupt 19th-century St Petersburg, Christ-like Prince Myshkin becomes entangled in the lives of the self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the romantic Aglaya Epanchina.
Creator
Vladimir Bortko
Network
Russia-1
Origin
RU
Cast
Evgeny Mironov
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
Lydia Velezheva
Nastasya Filippovna
Olga Budina
Agláya Ivánovna
Evgeniy Semyonov
Ippolít Teréntyev
Vladimir Ilin
Lukyán Timoféevich / 'Lébedyev'
Inna Churikova
Lizavéta Prokófyevna
Oleg Basilashvili
General Iván Fyódorovich Epanchín
Anastasiya Melnikova
Alexándra Ivánovna
Rosina Tsidulko
Adelaída Ivánovna
Natalya Mikhaylova
Véra Lukyánovna
Aleksandr Lazarev Jr.
Ганя Иволгин
Elena Malinovskaya
landlady
Vladimir Mashkov
Parfyón Semyónovich Rogózhin
Episodes
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