The Children Play Russian (1993)

6.2/10 • 58 min • Drama

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

Szabó László

Jack Valenti, the Producer

Jean-Luc Godard

Prince Mishkin, the Idiot

André S. Labarthe

Alcide Jolivet

Aude Amiot

Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karenina

Irina Apeksimova

Anna Karenina

Marie Borowski

Benjamin Kraatz

Prince André

Kseniya Kutepova

Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters

Polina Kutepova

Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters

Bénédicte Loyen

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