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Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert’s ‘The Idiots,’ Starring Aimee Lou Wood and Johnny Flynn, Boarded by the Match Factory (EXCLUSIVE)
The Match Factory has come on board as sales agent for “The Idiots,” the new feature by Polish filmmakers Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert.
The story is based on the novel “The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky” by Andrew D. Kaufman, published in 2021, which follows the lives of the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna during a period that inspired him to write “The Idiot” – at the time a commercial flop, but today, considered one of the greatest novels in the history of literature. The film follows Fyedya and Anna as they travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Co-directing with Englert has proven successful in the past: their previous films “Woman of…” (2023) and “Never Gonna Snow Again” (2020) both screened in Venice competition.
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