A saint walks into 1860s Russia and absolutely nobody knows what to do with him.
Acting
Łukaszewicz's Prince Myshkin: human golden retriever in a wolf's den.
Production
Gloomy Soviet-era interiors that somehow feel exactly right for Dostoevsky.
Director
Krzysztof Wojciechowski
Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Prince Myshkin
Janusz Gajos
Parfyon Rogozhin
Wojciech Brzozowicz
Lebedev
Jerzy Bończak
Ganya
Bogusz Bilewski
Ferdyshchenko
Krzysztof Chamiec
General Yepanchin
Zofia Rysiówna
Lizaveta Prokofyevna
Józef Pieracki
General Ivolgin
Małgorzata Lorentowicz
Nina Alexandrovna
Ewa Ziętek
Adelaida Yepanchin
Małgorzata Pieczyńska
Aglaya Yepanchin
Elżbieta Kamińska
Varvara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Polish adaptation was shot during martial law tensions, giving the party scenes an unintentionally real desperation.
Dostoevsky wrote The Idiot partly to disprove Turgenev's 'superfluous man'—creating instead a 'too-much man' who breaks under society's weight.
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