Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Priscilla Pizzato
2018-01-24


7
59 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Elsa Lepoivre Self - Narrator (voice) Unowned
Denis Podalydès Self - Narrator (voice) Unowned
Olga Turbina Self - Archivist Unowned
Fedor Guber Self - Grossman's Son Unowned
Alexis Berelowitch Self - Grossman's Translator Unowned
Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman Self - Grossman's Daughter Unowned
Olivier Rolin Self - Writer Unowned
Vladimir Voinovich Self - Writer Unowned
Anthony Beevor Self - Historian Unowned
Bernard Pivot Self - TV Host (archive footage) Unowned
Joseph Stalin Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Vladimir Lenin Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Solomon Mikhoels Self - Actor (archive footage) Unowned
Adolf Hitler Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned
Nikita Khrushchev Self - Politician (archive footage) Unowned