Award-winning European actors Vicky Krieps (Corsage, Phantom Thread) and Christian Friedel (The Zone of Curiosity, White Lotus) have joined the ensemble solid of The Idiots, the brand new movie from Polish administrators Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert (Girl of…, By no means Gonna Snow Once more).
Friedl’s White Lotus co-star Aimee Lou Wooden, and Ripley actor Johnny Flynn headline the mission in a solid that additionally contains Dune: Prophecy actress Barbara Marten, and Rainer Bock (Marvel Girl, The White Ribbon).
Szumowska and Englert co-wrote The Idiots along with Kasper Bajon and Bríd Arnstein, basing the story on Andrew D. Kaufman’s 2021 novel The Gambler Spouse: A True Story of Love, Danger, and the Girl Who Saved Dostoyevsky, which follows the lives of the well-known Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his spouse Anna throughout a interval that impressed him to jot down his traditional The Fool.
Wooden and Flynn play Anna and her husband, nicknamed Fiedya. The couple is on a honeymoon journey to Western Europe, however Dostoyevsky’s playing habit threatens to spoil them each. It’s solely with the assistance of his brave spouse that the pair can pursue their joint imaginative and prescient of writing The Fool, a e-book that was a business failure on the time however is now acknowledged as a literary masterpiece.
Ilya Stewart and Vladimir Zemtsov are producing The Idiots for Hype Studios and Gold Rush Photos. Manufacturing is ready to start subsequent month. The Match Manufacturing unit are dealing with worldwide gross sales.