

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
7.0(1 votes)
2018
0h 59m
Documentary
History
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.
Production
ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Cast

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

Anthony Beevor
Self - Historian

Bernard Pivot
Self - TV Host (archive footage)