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.
László Szabó | Jack Valenti: The producer |
Jean-Luc Godard | The idiot: Prince Mishkin |
Bernard Eisenschitz | Harry Blount |
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 |