The Idiot
Created by Vladimir Bortko
On Russia-1
A dense, spiritually weighted adaptation of Dostoevsky's philosophical novel, following a Christ-like innocent through the moral corruption and romantic entanglement of 19th-century St. Petersburg.
The Idiot (Идиот) is a 2003 Russian costume drama television serial written by Vladimir Bortko, adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1869 novel of the same title. In corrupt 19th-century St Petersburg, Christ-like Prince Myshkin becomes entangled in the lives of the self-destructive Nastasya Filippovna and the romantic Aglaya Epanchina.
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