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The Children Play Russian

Les enfants jouent à la Russie

Release: 1993-08-08 ·Runtime: 58m ·★ 5.7
Documentary Drama

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.

Production Countries

France Switzerland

Production Companies

Cecco Films
JLG Films
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