Product: The Idiot (4 DVD Set)
Rating: 5.0
Idiot's unsurpassable humanity
If like me, you think you have seen it all in terms of actors and acting, take a look at this performance. Yes, we all know our stars, we surround them with love, adoration, Oscars, Golden Lions, Eagles, etc. Put that aside, and again, take a look at this performance. If after you have seen it, you find a category to place it in - I will owe you.Evgeny Mironov. His act feels like everything but acting. And to say the truth, it is not a real acting - it is rather a part of his soul, dissected, turned inside out, given a name and a separate life. If your soul can host prince Myshkin too, congratulate yourself - you are there with Dostoevsky himself.The series is well done. Good directing, good actors, except for Nastasya Fillipovna's part. Ms. Velezheva acts unemotionally, most of time mechanically. It is hard to justify why a wooden doll was casted as an object of passions. Vladimir Mashkov on the contrary, is burning with passion. His language, though, often sounds too contemporary, far from Dostoevsky's epoch. Inability to adjust the manner of speech, rhythm, and pronunciation to the epoch works against the actor's best effort.I do not really want to waste time discussing the flaws. Save your time for important things. Watch Mironov act, saturate yourself with Dostoevsky's humanity. Enjoy an encounter with a giant talent, but most of all, an incredible soul.