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The Children Play Russian

57 %|Aug 8, 1993|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.

Featured Crew

Jean-Luc Godard
Director
Jean-Luc Godard
Writer
Caroline Champetier
Director of Photography
Ruth Waldburger
Producer
Jean-Luc Godard
Editor

Cast

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László Szabó
Jack Valenti: The producer
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Jean-Luc Godard
The idiot: Prince Mishkin
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André S. Labarthe
Alcide Jolivet
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Polina Kutepova
the maid, Chekhov's sister
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Kseniya Kutepova
the maid, Chekhov's sister
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Irina Apeksimova
Anna Karenina