5/12/2023 0 Comments The idiot dostoevskyand Rogozhin) were as good as their Japanese counterparts, which is saying a lot, since Masayuki Mori and Toshiro Mifune were great in those parts. I think the two Russian male leads (Prince M. The DVD, as far as I know, is available in the US only at I found myself comparing this version to Kurosawa's. However, it was good enough in all parts to follow although I found myself hitting the pause button to read some of the longer captions. It was as if the translator went occasionally crazy and then recovered. As an American with no knowledge of Russian, I had to rely on the translation, which varied from very good (at least grammatically correct) to nearly incomprehensible. I found that parts, especially in the second half, were slow, but I found the novel to be slow in those parts as well. All the characters are true to the novel. I had read the novel again just recently before watching this 10 part, nearly 10 hour miniseries and I don't think that any of the key characters or events are left out, which is quite a feat in itself. Vladimir Bortko's Idiot is a faithful translation of Dostoyevsky's novel.
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