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...
Yuriy Yakovlev
Yuliya Borisova
Nikita Podgornyj
Leonid Parkhomenko
Raisa Maksimova
Vera Pashennaya
Nikolai Pazhitnov
Klavdiya Polovikova
Ivan Lyubeznov
Lyudmila Ivanova
Vladimir Muravyov
Sergei Martinson
Pavel Strelin
Grigoriy Shpigel
Galina Samokhina
Raisa Kurkina
Tamara Azarova