The Kids Play Russian

Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
8 August 1993    58mDrama, Documentary
5.95.7
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.

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  • László SzabóJack Valenti: The producer
  • Jean-Luc GodardThe idiot: Prince Mishkin / Director / Writer / Producer / Editor
  • Bernard EisenschitzHarry Blount
  • André S. LabartheAlcide Jolivet
  • Bénédicte Loyen
  • Polina Kutepovathe maid, Chekhov's sister
  • Kseniya Kutepovathe maid, Chekhov's sister
  • Irina ApeksimovaAnna Karenina
  • Aude AmiotMademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karénine
  • Marie Borowski
  • Benjamin KraatzPrince André
  • Ruth WaldburgerProducer
  • Alessandro CecconiExecutive Producer
  • Ira BarmakProducer
  • Caroline ChampetierDirector Of Photography / Assistant Director / Production Manager
  • Christophe PollockDirector Of Photography
  • Thierry BordesAssistant Director
  • Stéphane ThiébautSound

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