The Idiot,

Based on Dostoevsky's novel "The Idiot," 16 films and television series were shot in Russia, Italy, France, Japan, Great Britain, India, Poland, Germany, Estonia, and theater plays, ballets, and operas were staged. And for the writer himself it was one of his most favorite works. Dostoevsky specifically endowed his hero, Prince Myshkin, with a disease that should have inspired hostility. This mom...