The Children Play Russian

Movie · 0h 58m

Starring László Szabó, Jean-Luc Godard, Bernard Eisenschitz, André S. Labarthe

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.