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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.
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Szabó László
Jack Valenti, the Producer
Jean-Luc Godard
Prince Mishkin, the Idiot
Bernard Eisenschitz
Harry Blount
André S. Labarthe
Alcide Jolivet
Aude Amiot
Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karenina
Irina Apeksimova
Anna Karenina
Marie Borowski
Benjamin Kraatz
Prince André
Kseniya Kutepova
Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters
Polina Kutepova
Maid, One of Chekhov's Sisters
Bénédicte Loyen
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