Idiot

Based on the novel of Fyodor Dostoevsky "The Idiot" Count Myshkin comes back to Russia from Switzerland where he was under care in psychiatric hospital. He meets Parfen Rogozhin on a train on his way to St.Petersburg. Rogozhin tells Myshkin about his passionate love for Nastasia Filippovna who used to be a kept-woman of millionaire Totsky. When the count gets to Petersburg, he comes to the house of his distant relative Epanchina who is a wife of a general. Myshkin meets Epanchina's husband, their daughters, and general's secretary Ganya Ivolgin. Nastasia Filippovna's portrait that was accidentally spotted by the count on the general's table creates a big impression on Myshkin... (jakelijan virallinen teksti)