The Children Play Russian
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.
Rating
6.8/10
4 votes
Runtime
58 min
Theatrical cut
Released
1993
Released
Language
FR
Les enfants jouent à la Russie
Cast
László Szabó
Jack Valenti, the Producer
Jean-Luc Godard
Prince Mishkin, the Idiot
Bernard Eisenschitz
Harry Blount
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