Inna Mikhailovna Churikova
Idiot, Inna Mikhailovna Churikova, Oleg Basilashvili (2)
I don't normally care much for movies about the lives and manners of aristocratic families. But this family in Idiot is fun to watch. I'm not sure how much of the credit should go to Dostoevsky and how much to the filmmakers, but together they made these people interesting. It isn't just the individuals, but the inter-generational interactions that draw us in. There is some of your typical youthful rebellion, but the whole of the relationship between parents and children goes a lot deeper than that.
In this scene, General Yepanchin (nicely played by Oleg ...