Overview

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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Cast

László Szabó

Jack Valenti: The producer

Jean-Luc Godard

The idiot: Prince Mishkin

André S. Labarthe

Alcide Jolivet

Bénédicte Loyen

Polina Kutepova

the maid, Chekhov's sister

Kseniya Kutepova

the maid, Chekhov's sister

Irina Apeksimova

Anna Karenina

Marie Borowski