Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

• 7.0 Documentary
• 2018-01-24
• 59 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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))

Director:

Priscilla Pizzato

Writer:

Priscilla Pizzato