Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (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.
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Cast
- 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)
- Joseph Stalin — Self - Politician (archive footage)
- Vladimir Lenin — Self - Politician (archive footage)
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