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.
Cast
László Szabó
Jack Valenti: The producer
Jean-Luc Godard
The idiot: Prince Mishkin
Bernard Eisenschitz
Harry Blount
André S. Labarthe
Alcide Jolivet
Bénédicte Loyen
Unknown
Polina Kutepova
the maid, Chekhov's sister
Kseniya Kutepova
the maid, Chekhov's sister
Irina Apeksimova
Anna Karenina
Aude Amiot
Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karénine
Marie Borowski
Unknown
Benjamin Kraatz
Prince André
Crew
Jean-Luc Godard
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Caroline Champetier
Director of Photography, Assistant Director, Production Manager
Christophe Pollock
Director of Photography
Thierry Bordes
Assistant Director
Alessandro Cecconi
Executive Producer
Ruth Waldburger
Producer
Ira Barmak
Producer
Julien Hirsch
Assistant Camera
Stéphane Thiébaut
Sound
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