Vicky Krieps (Corsage, Phantom Thread, Maintain Me Tight and German actor Christian Friedel (The Zone of Curiosity, The White Ribbon, White Lotus) have joined the forged of The Idiots, the upcoming characteristic by Polish filmmakers Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert.
They be a part of beforehand introduced forged members Aimee Lou Wooden and Johnny Flynn within the characteristic, which is being offered internationally by The Match Manufacturing unit.
The drama is customized from Andrew D. Kaufman’s novel The Gambler Spouse: A True Story of Love, Danger, and the Lady Who Saved Dostoyevsky.
Szumowska and Michał Englert, whose earlier joint directorial credit embody Lady Of… (2023) and By no means Gonna Snow Once more (2020), have additionally co-written the variation with Kasper Bajon and Bríd Arnstein. Englert may even function cinematographer.
The novel follows the lives of Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his spouse Anna throughout a interval that impressed him to put in writing The Fool. The novel was a industrial flop on its publication however at this time is taken into account one of many best novels within the historical past of literature.
It follows their honeymoon journey to Baden which turns into an sudden, passionate journey during which playing results in damage, in an intimate portrait of the explosive relationship between the author and his spouse.
Krieps and Friedel will probably be taking part in supporting roles with Flynn and Wooden starring as Dostoyevsky and his spouse Anna.
Szumowska is a two-time Silver Bear winner on the Berlinale for Mug (2018) and Physique (2015), and gained the Locarno Particular Jury Prize for 33 Scenes from Life (2008). She has additionally been nominated for the European Discovery Award for Szczęśliwy człowiek (2001) and Stranger (2005), and for Greatest European Director for Physique on the European Movie Awards.
The movie is produced by Hype Studios and Gold Rush Photos. Hype Studios is a Paris and Los Angeles-based manufacturing firm, identified for Persian Classes (2020) and the Palme d’Or nominee Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie (2024).
Gold Rush Photos is a world manufacturing firm whose Membership Zero (2023) was a Palme d’Or nominee within the 2023 Cannes Competitors, and whose newest movie The Gentle (2025) opened this yr’s Berlin Movie Pageant. Producers are Ilya Stewart and Vladimir Zemtsov.
