Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

2018 • 0h 59m • ★ 7/10 • Documentary History

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

Elsa Lepoivre

Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Olga Turbina

Self - Archivist

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Fedor Guber

Self - Grossman's Son

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Alexis Berelowitch

Self - Grossman's Translator

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Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

Self - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier Rolin

Self - Writer

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Vladimir Voinovich

Self - Writer

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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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