The Idiot

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jeanne Balibar
Jeanne Balibar

Nastassya Filippovna

Laurent Lacotte
Laurent Lacotte

Prince Myshkin

Sylvie Testud
Sylvie Testud

Darya Alexeyevna

Bernard Eisenschitz
Bernard Eisenschitz

Totsky

Pierre Léon
Pierre Léon

General Epanchin

Jean Denizot
Jean Denizot

Ferdyshchenko

Serge Bozon
Serge Bozon

Ganya

Vladimir Léon
Vladimir Léon

Rogozhin

Martial Salomon
Martial Salomon

Ptitsyn

Renaud Legrand
Renaud Legrand

Lebedev

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    Nastassia Philippovna finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky. Another is the opportunistic Ganya, whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Rogozhin offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her.

  • Release Date

    2008-08-07

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
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