''Les Enfants jouent à la Russie'' ( English: ''The Kids Play Russian'') is a 1993 French film directed by

Jean-Luc Godard Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French and Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as ...

and starring László Szabó and Godard. Szabó plays a

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producer who hires a famous French filmmaker (Godard) to make a documentary about post-

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Russia. Instead the filmmaker stays in France and casts himself in the lead role of

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's ''

The Idiot ''The Idiot'' (Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ) is a novel by the 19th-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was first published serially in the journal ''The Russian Messenger'' in 1868–1869. The titl ...

''.

Cast

* László Szabó as Jack Valenti, the producer *

as Prince Mishkin, the idiot * Bernard Eisenschitz as Harry Blount * André S. Labarthe as Alcide Jolivet * Aude Amiot as Mademoiselle Amiel * Bénédicte Loyen

References

External links

* 1993 films French drama films Films directed by Jean-Luc Godard The Idiot 1990s French films {{1990s-France-film-stub