
The film is based on the first part of the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Prince Myshkin returns to Russia from Switzerland, where he was treated in a psychiatric clinic. On the train, on the way to St. Petersburg, the prince meets Parfyon Rogozhin, who tells him of his passionate love for Nastasya Filippovna, the former containment woman of the millionaire Totsky. In St. Petersburg, the prince finds himself in the house of his distant relative – Lizaveta Yepanchina (General's wife), meets her husband, their daughters, as well as the Secretary of General – Ganya Ivolgin. The portrait of Nastasya Filippovna, accidentally seen on the general’s table, makes a great impression on the prince...

as Prince Myshkin

as Nastasya Filippovna

as Ganya Ivolgin

as Parfyon Rogozhin

as Aglaya Yepanchina

as General Yepanshin's wife

as General Yepanchin

as Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina

as General Ivolgin

as Varya Ivolgina

as Ferdyshchenko

as Lebedev

as Trotsky

as Ptitsyn

as Aleksandra Yepanchina

as Adelaida Yepanchina

as Daria Alekseyevna

as (uncredited)