The Children Play Russian

(1993)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 5 votes

Year: 1993

Runtime: 58 мин

Country: France, Switzerland

Director: Жан-Люк Годар

Cast: László Szabó, Жан-Люк Годар, Bernard Eisenschitz, André S. Labarthe, Aude Amiot, Ирина Апексимова, Marie Borowski, Benjamin Kraatz, Ксения Кутепова, Полина Кутепова

Plot

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.