Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

59 mins | Documentary, History | Jan. 24, 2018

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.

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

59 mins | Documentary, History | Jan. 24, 2018

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
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.
Producers ARTE, Agat Films & Cie, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Original title Le Manuscrit sauvé du KGB
Directors Priscilla Pizzato
Writers Priscilla Pizzato

Cast

Elsa Lepoivre

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Olga Turbina

as Self - Archivist

Fedor Guber

as Self - Grossman's Son

Alexis Berelowitch

as Self - Grossman's Translator

Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

as Self - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier Rolin

as Self - Writer

Vladimir Voinovich

as Self - Writer

Anthony Beevor

as Self - Historian

Bernard Pivot

as Self - TV Host (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solomon Mikhoels

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

as Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

as Self - Politician (archive footage)