Vladimir Bortko	...	(Director)
Vladimir Bortko, Fyodor Dostoevsky	...	(Writer)
Yevgeny Mironov	...	Prince Myshkin
Vladimir Mashkov	...	Parfyon Rogozhin
Lidiya Velezheva	...	Nastassya Filippovna
Olga Budina	...	Aglaya Yepanchina
Inna Churikova	...	Lizaveta Prokof'yevna
Oleg Basilashvili	...	General Yepanchin
Vladimir Ilin	...	Lebedev
Aleksandr Lazarev Ml.	...	Ganya Ivolgin
Andrey Smirnov	...	Totsky
Anastasiya Melnikova	...	Aleksandra Yepanchina
Rasina Tsydalko	...	Adelaida Yepanchina
Sergei Muchenikov	...	Yepanchin's Footman
Aleksey Petrenko	...	General Ivolgin
Mikhail Boyarskiy	...	Keller
Larisa Malevannaya	...	Nina Aleksandrovna

Summary: The thrilling drama based on the world's greatest masterpiece by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Half-sane Prince Myshkin returns from Swiss psycho-clinic to face the glamorous world of St Petersburg. Here vice, money and extortion rule. Myshkin finds himself in the whirlpool of intrigue. He inherits an enormous fortune, acquires affections of the vicious Nastassya Filippovna and the beautiful young Aglaya. Scandal, murder and incredible love affair follow. Plunge into the atmosphere of the 19th century St Petersburg created by the impressive authentic costumes and sceneries in the most expensive TV-project in Russia