The Children Play Russian (1993)

The Children Play Russian

1993

Documentary Drama

Synopsis

A famous French filmmaker is hired by a major Hollywood producer to make a documentary on the state of post-Cold War Russia. The filmmaker, though, subverts the project by stubbornly remaining in France and casting himself as the title character of Dostoyevsky's "The Idiot," offering up a series of typically Godardian musings on art, politics, the nature of images and the future of cinema.

Credits

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

André S. Labarthe as Alcide Jolivet

Bénédicte Loyen

Bernard Eisenschitz as Harry Blount

Irina Apeksimova as Anna Karenina

Jean-Luc Godard as The idiot: Prince Mishkin

Kseniya Kutepova as the maid, Chekhov's sister

László Szabó as Jack Valenti: The producer

Polina Kutepova as the maid, Chekhov's sister