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''The Idiot'' (russian: Идиот), is a 1959
Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
film directed by
Ivan Pyryev Ivan Aleksandrovich Pyryev (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Пы́рьев; – 7 February 1968) was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter remembered as the high priest of Stalinist cinema. He was awarded six Stal ...
. It is based on Part 1 of the eponymous 1869 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Yuriy Yakovlev declined to play the title character in a sequel which was never made.


Cast

* Yuri Yakovlev as Prince Lev (Leo) Myshkin Юрий Яковлев: Ботинок всемогущий Пырьев мне не целовал, но на колени упал и пополз по ковру со словами: «Умоляю, снимайся у Рязанова!»
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Yuliya Borisova Yuliya Konstantinova Borisova (russian: Ю́лия Константи́новна Бори́сова; born 17 March 1925) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. She has played in the Vakhtangov Theatre for more than sixty years. One of t ...
as Nastasia Philippovna Barashkova *
Nikita Podgorny Nikita Vladimirovich Podgorny ( ru , Ники́та Влади́мирович Подго́рный; February 16, 1931 — September 26 1982) was a Soviet film and theater actor. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1971).Vera Pashennaya as General's wife *
Sergey Martinson Sergey Alexandrovich Martinson (russian: Серге́й Александрович Мартинсон; – 2 September 1984) was a Russian eccentric comic actor, the master of pantomime, buffoonery and grotesque. He became People's Artist of t ...
as Lebedev * Leonid Parkhomenko as Parfen Rogozhin *
Ivan Lyubeznov Ivan Aleksandrovich Lyubeznov (russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Любе́знов; 19 April (2 May) 1909, in Astrakhan – 5 March 1988, in Moscow) was a Russian theater and film actor, reader during the rule of the Soviet Uni ...
as General Ivolgin * Raisa Maksimova as Aglaya Yepanchina * Vladimir Muravyov as Ferdishchenko *
Grigory Shpigel Grigory Oyzerovich Spiegel (russian: Григо́рий О́йзерович Шпи́гель; 24 July 1914 — 28 April 1981) was a Soviet and Russian actor and voice actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974). Biography He worked as a pleater at ...
as Ptitsyn


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* * 1958 films Soviet drama films 1950s Russian-language films Films based on The Idiot Films directed by Ivan Pyryev 1958 drama films Mosfilm films {{1950s-drama-film-stub