Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
2018•59m•7.0•Released
DocumentaryHistory
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.
Director
Priscilla Pizzato
Writer
Priscilla Pizzato
Languages
English, French, Russian
Studio
ARTE
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)
Joseph Stalin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Solomon Mikhoels
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Production
Company
ARTE
Company
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Company
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Producer
Muriel Meynard
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