What became of it
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky · first published 1869
11 versions · 1921–2011 · screen, stage
On screen
9Film and television, earliest first.
- 1921 Wandering Souls Carl Froelich
- 1946 The Idiot Georges Lampin
- 1951 The Idiot Akira Kurosawa
- 1958 Idiot Ivan Pyryev
- 1966 Au Hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson
- 1994 Nastasja Andrzej Wajda
- 2001 Down House Roman Kachanov
- 2003 The Idiot Vladimir Bortko
- 2011 The Idiot Rainer Sarnet
On stage
2Opera, musical theatre and ballet made from it.
- — L'idiota Luciano Chailly
- — The Idiot Mieczysław Weinberg
Versions are listed where they are documented. A century of stage productions and most broadcasts were never catalogued at all, so this is what can be shown rather than everything that was ever made.