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| | Amazon.com: The Idiot: Video: Akira Kurosawa,Setsuko Hara,Masayuki Mori,ToshirĂ´ Mifune,Takashi Shimura,Chieko ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | I have a memory of being in the Peter and Paul fortress in St. Petersberg and seeing a cell, and being told that Dostoevsky had been imprisoned, brought before a firing squad, blindfolded, the shots rang out...but the whole thing had been a cruel joke..they had not shot the novelist, he had been reprieved. |
 | | I know that Dostoevsky lived in St. Peteresberg, and I know that he had been in the army, and that he suffered from epilepsy and this reprieve from death, well, it would be pretty much the history (or to use film lingo, "backstory") of the central character in "The Idiot". |
 | | "The Idiot" is a very complicated story and fitting all the characters and subplots into a two and a half hour movie does not work. |
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