Overview
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.
Cast
- Evgeny Mironov as Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
- Igor Ivanov as Parfyón Semyónovich Rogózhin
- Lydia Velezheva as Nastasya Filippovna
- Olga Budina as Agláya Ivánovna
- Evgeniy Semyonov as Ippolít Teréntyev
- Vladimir Ilin as Lukyán Timoféevich / 'Lébedyev'
- Inna Churikova as Lizavéta Prokófyevna
- Oleg Basilashvili as General Iván Fyódorovich Epanchín
- Anastasiya Melnikova as Alexándra Ivánovna
- Rosina Tsidulko as Adelaída Ivánovna