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.

Cast

László Szabó

Jack Valenti: The producer

Jean-Luc Godard

The idiot: Prince Mishkin

Bernard Eisenschitz

Harry Blount

André S. Labarthe

Alcide Jolivet

Bénédicte Loyen

Polina Kutepova

the maid, Chekhov's sister

Kseniya Kutepova

the maid, Chekhov's sister

Irina Apeksimova

Anna Karenina

Aude Amiot

Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karénine

Marie Borowski