The idiot = Hakuchi

Author

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Languages

Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Toshirō Mifune.

Publication Information

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2007.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (166 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Based on Dostoyevsky's fable of a holy fool, this story which takes place in Hokkaido in the winter is about a man who returns home after a stay in an asylum. He is being drawn toward Christianity, his antagonist is an anarchist.

Notes

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.