The Idiot (2008)
Dostoevsky
Starring Jeanne Balibar, Laurent Lacotte, Sylvie Testud
Directed by Pierre Léon
Léon returns to Dostoevsky to film an episode from The Idiot, starring Jeanne Balibar as the femme fatale Nastassia Philippovna, who finds herself juggling the affections of four men over the course of a single evening. One is her benefactor, the bourgeois Totsky (film historian Bernard Eisenschitz). Another is the opportunistic Ganya (Serge Bozon), whom Totsky has promised 75,000 rubles if he will marry Nastassia. Enter Rogozhin, who offers Nastassia 100,000 rubles for her hand. And of course, the “idiot,” Prince Myshkin, who loves Nastassia madly and vows to “save” her. Shot in elegant black-and-white with a peerless cast, The Idiot distills the power of Dostoevsky’s great novel into a singular hour of cinema.
Runtime: 60 min.
Rating: 6.5
 
Languages: Français
Countries: France
Genres: Drama
Keywords: russia,dostoevsky,literary adaptation
Cast
Nastassya Filippovna
Prince Myshkin
Darya Alexeyevna
Totsky
General Epanchin
Ferdyshchenko
Ganya
Rogozhin
Ptitsyn
Lebedev
Medical student
Keller