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)
