F. F. M. Dostoyevsky: The Idiot

Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot is one of the most famous works of Russian literature. The young Prince Myshkin, completely impoverished and afflicted with epilepsy, experiences such strange stories after his return from a Swiss sanatorium that he falls back into his mental illness. The author presents his hero as a man who could uplift the world; because Myshkin, with his philosophy of humility and omnibenevolence, brings misfortune to those he loves, and ultimately to himself. Persons and cast: Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin (Jan Hartl), Parafen Rogozhin (Václav Postránecký), Nastasya Filipovna (Jana Hlavacova), General Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin (Martin Ruzek), Lizaveta Prokofievna, his wife (Ludmila Vostrčilová), Aglaya, his daughter (Klara Jerneková), Adele, his daughter (Tatiana Medvecka), Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev (Josef Somr), General Ardalion Alexandrovich Ivolgin (Rudolf Hrusinsky), Gavrila Ardalionovic, called Gaṇa, his son (Eduard Cupák), Varvara, his daughter (Růžena Merunková), Afanasij Ivanovich Tockij (Vladimír Ráž) and prologue and epilogue (Radovan Lukavský).