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.
as Jack Valenti: The producer
as The idiot: Prince Mishkin
as Harry Blount
as Alcide Jolivet
as the maid, Chekhov's sister
as the maid, Chekhov's sister
as Anna Karenina
as Mademoiselle Amiel / Anna Karénine
as Prince André
