“Corsage” and “Phantom Thread” actor Vicky Krieps and “The Zone of Curiosity” and “White Lotus” star Christian Friedel have joined Aimee Lou Wooden and Johnny Flynn in the forged of “The Idiots.”

Krieps received Cannes’ Un Sure Regard finest efficiency award and the European Movie Award for “Corsage” in 2022. Friedel is a two-time nominee for finest actor at each the European and German movie awards.

Different actors becoming a member of the forged are Barbara Marten (“Dune: The Prophecy,” “Oranges and Sunshine”) and three-time German Movie Award nominee Rainer Bock (“Atlas,” “Das Boot,” “The White Ribbon”).

The movie is to be directed by Polish filmmakers Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, and is co-written by Szumowska and Englert along with Kasper Bajon and Bríd Arnstein. Englert may even function cinematographer. Worldwide gross sales are being dealt with by the Match Manufacturing facility.

The story is predicated on the novel “The Gambler Spouse: A True Story of Love, Threat, and the Girl Who Saved Dostoyevsky” by Andrew D. Kaufman, revealed in 2021, which follows the lives of the author Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his spouse Anna throughout a interval that impressed him to write down “The Fool” – on the time a business flop, however as we speak, thought-about one of many biggest novels in the historical past of literature.

Anna and Fiedya’s honeymoon journey to Baden turns into an sudden, passionate journey the place actuality blends with creativeness, East meets West, and playing results in break. An intimate portrait of the explosive relationship between the author and his brave spouse, as they battle with obstacles and pursue their imaginative and prescient of making a soon-to-be masterpiece: “The Fool.”

Szumowska is a two-time Silver Bear winner on the Berlinale for “Mug” (2018) and “Physique” (2015), and received 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 finest European director for “Physique” on the European Movie Awards.

Szumowska and Englert labored as co-directors on “Girl Of…” (2023) and “By no means Gonna Snow Once more” (2020), which each premiered in competitors on the Venice Movie Competition. Englert can be a recipient of the Sundance cinematography award for “Lasting” (2013), a five-time Polish Movie Awards nominee for finest cinematography, and a six-time nominee on the prestigious cinematography pageant Camerimage.

Arnstein is a BAFTA-nominated author, working throughout each movie and tv. Since graduating from the Nationwide Movie and Tv Faculty in 2020, she has developed unique TV initiatives with corporations together with DNA, FX, Aspect Footage, Home Productions, FilmNation and Ray Footage. Bajon is a author and assistant director, recognized for “Through Carpatia” (2018), “Open Your Eyes” (2021) and “Undertaking UFO” (2025).

The movie is produced by Hype Studios and Gold Rush Footage. Hype Studios is a Paris- and Los Angeles-based manufacturing firm, recognized for “Persian Classes” (2020) and the Palme d’Or nominee “Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie” (2024). Gold Rush Footage is a global manufacturing firm whose “Membership Zero” (2023) was a Palme d’Or nominee in the 2023 Cannes competitors, and whose newest movie “The Gentle” (2025) opened this yr’s Berlin Movie Competition. The producers are Ilya Stewart and Vladimir Zemtsov.