The Children Play Russian (1993)
Overview
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.
Cast
László Szabó
Jack Valenti, the Producer
Jean-Luc Godard
Prince Mishkin, the Idiot
André S. Labarthe
Alcide Jolivet
Irina Apeksimova
Anna Karenina
Marie Borowski
Kseniya Kutepova
Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters
Polina Kutepova
Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters
Bénédicte Loyen
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