The Children Play Russian

58min

Documentary

Drama

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.

Production Companies

Cecco Films

JLG Films

Momentous Events

Cast

László Szabó

László Szabó

Jack Valenti: The producer
Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

The idiot: Prince Mishkin
André S. Labarthe

André S. Labarthe

Alcide Jolivet
Polina Kutepova

Polina Kutepova

the maid, Chekhov's sister
Kseniya Kutepova

Kseniya Kutepova

the maid, Chekhov's sister
Irina Apeksimova

Irina Apeksimova

Anna Karenina

Release date

8th Aug 1993

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Français