Programmer Prince Myshkin returns to his historical homeland from Switzerland, where he was undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic. On the bus, the prince meets businessman Parfen Rogozhin, who is suffering from lovesickness for Nastasya Filippovna.
Acting
Ivan Okhlobystin's Rogozhin is terrifyingly unhinged
Direction
Kachanov weaponizes slacker aesthetics against Russian lit canon
Writing
Script dares to make Prince Myshkin a code-junkie messiah
Director
Roman Kachanov
Fyodor Bondarchuk
князь Мышкин
Ivan Okhlobystin
Парфён Семёнович Рогожин
Anna Buklovskaya
Настасья Филипповна
Aleksandr Bashirov
Фердыщенко
Mikhail Vladimirov
Ганя Иволгин
Jerzy Stuhr
генерал Иволгин
Valentina Sharykina
Иволгина
Galina Kashkovskaya
Варя Иволгина
Juozas Budraitis
Иван Фёдорович Епанчин
Barbara Brylska
Елизавета Прокофьевна, генеральша Епанчина
Elena Kotelnikova
Аглая Епанчина
Artemiy Troitskiy
Тоцкий
Elena Kondulaynen
Александра Епанчина
Aleksandr Ilin
Рогожин-старший
Mikhail Politseymako
Дмитриевич
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Russia's 'chernukha' wave — films depicting post-Soviet decay with unflinching black humor. Kachanov dared to apply this to Dostoevsky, scandalizing traditionalists.
Fyodor Bondarchuk (Myshkin) is son of legendary director Sergei Bondarchuk, who adapted War and Peace. The casting was read as generational betrayal of Soviet cinema grandeur.
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