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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
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Top 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
Top Crew
Priscilla Pizzato · Director, Writer
Anna Sigalevitch · Composer
Valerio Carignano · Cinematographer
Yohann Le Rallier · Editor
Muriel Meynard · Producer
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