The competition factory has already served as the sales agent for "Idiots", a new feature for Polish film producers Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert.

The film stars Aimee Lou Wood, a champ at Best Female Performance in the "Sex Education" comedy show, along with Johnny Flynn ("Ripley", "One Life", "One Life", "Beast"), who won the Best Supporting Actor Critics Choice Award in "Genius."

The main photography of the film will begin next month.

The story is based on Andrew D. Kaufman's novel The Gambler's Wife: The True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Saving Dostoyevsky, published in 2021, following the lives of writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna, which inspired him in a period that inspired "idiots" - within the scope of this era, but now writing the history of a literati.

The film follows Fyededa and Anna for their honeymoon in Europe, eventually staying at a healthy resort in Switzerland, returning to Russia only four years later.

Fyedya can’t shake their habits, but keep losing their money. His wife accepted this fate because he kept assured her that it was all for inspiration and soon he would write his masterpiece "Idiot".

Szumowska works with Kasper Bajon and Englert will do photography. Szumowska's films Mug (2018) and "Body" (2015) won the Silver Bear twice in Berlin Nall. She won the Locarno Special Jury Award “33 Scenes in Life” (2018), and won the European Discovery Awards for the European Discovery Awards “Szczesliwy Czlowiek” (2001) and “Stranger” (2005), and won the Best European Director (2005) for the European Film Achards’ “Body” (2015).

The past and Englert lead to past success: their previous films, The Woman of… (2023) and “No Snow Again” (2020) (2020) were screened at the Venice Competition. Englert is the Sundance Photography Awards "Durable" (2023), the five nominee for Best Photography at the Polish Film Awards and has also been nominated for the Photography Awards for Six times.

The film was produced by Hype Studios and Gold Rush Pictures. Hype Studios is a Paris and Los Angeles-based production company known for “The Persian Course” (2020) and Palme d'Or Nominee “Limonov: Eddie’s Ballad” (2024). Gold Rush Pictures is an international production company whose "Zero Club" (2023) is the Palme d'Or nominee at the 2023 Cannes Competition, and its latest film "The Light" (2025) was released at this year's Berlin Film Festival. Producers are Ilya Stewart and Vladimir Zemtsov.

Wood is represented by the British independents and the US CAA, Flynn is represented by the United Kingdom Joint Agents, and CAA in the US szumowska represents the CAA.