The Idiot
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5/12/2003Runtime
10 eps, 500 minsGenres
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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.
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A sprawling, psychologically dense adaptation of Dostoevsky that moves with the deliberate pace of 19th-century Russian society, exploring the collision between moral innocence and urban corruption through the eyes of a man too good for the world he inhabits. The 500-minute runtime allows the narrative and characters to unfold with operatic inevitability.
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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
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