The Children Play Russian

The story

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 & crew

László SzabóJack Valenti, the Producer

Jean-Luc GodardPrince Mishkin, the Idiot

Bernard Eisenschitz

Bernard EisenschitzHarry Blount

André S. LabartheAlcide Jolivet

Aude AmiotMademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karenina

Irina ApeksimovaAnna Karenina

Marie BorowskiCast

Benjamin KraatzPrince André

Kseniya KutepovaMaid, One of Chekhov's Sisters

Polina KutepovaMaid, One of Chekhov's Sisters

Bénédicte LoyenCast