Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

  • Rated 7.0 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 2018
  • 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.

Director
Priscilla Pizzato
Starring
Elsa Lepoivre, Denis Podalydès, Olga Turbina, Fedor Guber

Cast

  • Elsa Lepoivre

    Elsa Lepoivre

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Denis Podalydès

    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

    Olivier Rolin

    Self - Writer

  • Vladimir Voinovich

    Self - Writer

  • Anthony Beevor

    Self - Historian

  • Bernard Pivot

    Bernard Pivot

    Self - TV Host (archive footage)

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