Vicky Krieps and Christian Friedel have joined the cast of Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s The Idiots.
Krieps, Friedel, Barbara Marten and Rainer Bock join previously-announced cast members Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn, with filming scheduled to begin next month.
The Idiots is based on Andrew D. Kaufman’s 2021 novel The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky. The film will tell the story of Russian writer Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna on their honeymoon trip to Baden – the period in his life that inspired him to write The Idiot.
Szumowska and Englert co-wrote the script with Kasper Bajon and Brid Arnstein.
The film is produced by Ilya Stewart and Vladimir Zemtsov, for French-US company Hype Studios and the UK’s Gold Rush Pictures. The Match Factory handles international sales.
Szumowska and Englert have previously co-directed Venice competition titles Woman Of… and Never Gonna Snow Again. Prior to that, Szumowska won two Berlinale Silver Bears, for Mug in 2018 and Body in 2015.
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