Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
- Documentary
- History
1/24/2018
59
Storyline
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:
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Cast
Elsa LepoivreSelf - Narrator (voice)
Denis PodalydèsSelf - Narrator (voice)
Olga TurbinaSelf - Archivist- Fedor GuberSelf - Grossman's Son
- Alexis BerelowitchSelf - Grossman's Translator
- Ekaterina Korotkova-GrossmanSelf - Grossman's Daughter
- Olivier RolinSelf - Writer
- Vladimir VoinovichSelf - Writer
- Anthony BeevorSelf - Historian
- Bernard PivotSelf - TV Host (archive footage)
- Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Vladimir LeninSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Solomon MikhoelsSelf - Actor (archive footage)
- Adolf HitlerSelf - Politician (archive footage)
- Nikita KhrushchevSelf - Politician (archive footage)