The Children Play Russian (1993)

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.
- Released
- 1993-08-08
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 58 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Jean-Luc Godard
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Szabó László as Jack Valenti, the Producer
- Jean-Luc Godard as Prince Mishkin, the Idiot
- Bernard Eisenschitz as Harry Blount
- André S. Labarthe as Alcide Jolivet
- Aude Amiot as Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karenina
- Irina Apeksimova as Anna Karenina
- Marie Borowski
- Benjamin Kraatz as Prince André
- Kseniya Kutepova as Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters
- Polina Kutepova as Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters
- Bénédicte Loyen