Following Joseph Stalin 's death , Pyryev turned his attention to adaptations . He produced two acclaimed adaptations of Fyodor Dostoevsky 's novels , '' The Idiot '' ( 1958 , starring Yuri Yakovlev ) and '' The Brothers Karamazov '' ( 1969 ) , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won him a Special Prize at the 6th Moscow International Film Festival . Pyryev died at the age of 66 in Moscow . Since '' The Brothers Karamazov '' was unfinished at the time , the film stars Kirill Lavrov and Mikhail Ulyanov are usually credited with having brought the project to a conclusion . His widow Lionella Pyryeva , who took the part of Grushenka in '' The Brothers Karamazov '' , went on to marry Oleg Strizhenov
6th Moscow International Film Festival
6th Moscow International Film Festival
Ivan Pyryev