The plot is set in modern Moscow, in the 1990s, with "New Russians", Hummer H1 SUVs, bribery, violence, truck fulls of tinned stew as a dowry, etc.
Фёдор Бондарчук
as Count Myshkin
Иван Охлобыстин
as Parfyon Rogozhin
Анна Букловская
as Nastasya Filippovna
Александр Баширов
as Ferdyshchenko
Михаил Владимиров
as Ganya Ivolgin
Jerzy Stuhr
as Gen. Ivolgin
Valentina Sharykina
as Gen. Ivolgina
Галина Кашковская
as Varya Ivolgina
Juozas Budraitis
as Gen. Yepanchin
Barbara Brylska
as Gen. Yepanchina
Елена Котельникова
as Aglaya
Артемий Троицкий
as Totsky
