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...
Юрий Яковлев
as Prince Myshkin
Yuliya Borisova
as Nastasya Filippovna
Nikita Podgornyj
as Ganya Ivolgin
Leonid Parkhomenko
as Parfyon Rogozhin
Раиса Максимова
as Aglaya Yepanchina
Vera Pashennaya
as General Yepanshin's wife
Nikolai Pazhitnov
as General Yepanchin
Клавдия Половикова
as Nina Aleksandrovna Ivolgina
Иван Любезнов
as General Ivolgin
Lyudmila Ivanova
as Varya Ivolgina
Владимир Муравьев
as Ferdyshchenko
Сергей Мартинсон
as Lebedev
