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What became of it

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoevsky · first published 1869

11 versions · 1921–2011 · screen, stage

Exchange Of Peterburg
Exchange Of Peterburg · Ivan Aivazovsky · 1847 — a plate from our edition

On screen

9

Film 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

2

Opera, 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.