The Children Play Russian

The Children Play Russian

58 mins | Drama, Documentary | Jan. 1, 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.

The Children Play Russian

58 mins | Drama, Documentary | Jan. 1, 1993

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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers
Original title Les enfants jouent à la Russie
Directors Jean-Luc Godard
Writers Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

László Szabó

as Jack Valenti: The producer

Jean-Luc Godard

as The idiot: Prince Mishkin

Bernard Eisenschitz

as Harry Blount

André S. Labarthe

as Alcide Jolivet

Polina Kutepova

as the maid, Chekhov's sister

Kseniya Kutepova

as the maid, Chekhov's sister

Irina Apeksimova

as Anna Karenina