Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

DocumentaryHistory

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

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Release2018→

Runtime0H 59M

LanguageEnglish

StatusReleased

Synopsis

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.

Principal Cast8

Elsa Lepoivre

Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

Olga Turbina

Self - Archivist

Fedor Guber

Self - Grossman's Son

Alexis Berelowitch

Self - Grossman's Translator

Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

Self - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier Rolin

Self - Writer

Vladimir Voinovich

Self - Writer

Full Cast & Crew (28)

Media2

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Director

Priscilla Pizzato

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Keywords

world war iistalingradbiographyrussian historycensorshipjewish culturepolitical repressionportrait of an artistrussian literaturesoviet union historyliterature historyukrainian literature