A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Peter Sellars
as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess Meredith
as Don Learo
Julie Delpy
as Virginia
Leos Carax
as Edgar
Molly Ringwald
as Cordelia
Jean-Luc Godard
as Professor Pluggy
Woody Allen
as Mr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy Buache
as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
Menahem Golan
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Suzanne Lanza
as (uncredited)
Kate Mailer
as Self (uncredited)
Norman Mailer
as Self (uncredited)
