The Children Play Russian
MovieTitle | Les enfants jouent à la Russie |
User score | 5.7 |
Release date | Aug 8, 1993 |
Genre | Documentary, Drama |
Director | Jean-Luc Godard |
Production country | France, Switzerland |
Production companies | Cecco Films, JLG Films, Momentous Events |
Run time | 58 min. |
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.