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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
FR
Genres:
Documentary, History
Release:
January 2018
Production:
ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Cast:
Elsa Lepoivre, Denis Podalydès, Olga Turbina, Fedor Guber, Alexis Berelowitch, Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman, Olivier Rolin, Vladimir Voinovich, Anthony Beevor, Bernard Pivot, Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, Solomon Mikhoels, Adolf Hitler, Nikita Khrushchev, Antony Beevor
Tags:
world war ii, stalingrad, biography, russian history, censorship, jewish culture, political repression, portrait of an artist, russian literature, soviet union history, literature history, ukrainian literature
