

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.
Director
Jean-Luc GodardWriters
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