The Children Play Russian (1993)

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.

Released Aug. 8, 1993 58 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Drama

Keywords: imdb.eisenstein, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.imagery, imdb.self-referential, imdb.producer, imdb.russia, imdb.filmmaking + 9 more, imdb.cold-war, imdb.airplane, imdb.found-footage, imdb.cinematography, imdb.essay-film, imdb.reference-to-fyodor-dostoevsky, imdb.reference-to-leo-tolstoy, imdb.reference-to-vladimir-mayakovsky, aspectratio.1-33-1