Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
7.0(1) 2018-01-24 59 minDocumentaryHistory
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.
DirectorPriscilla Pizzato
Original Music ComposerAnna Sigalevitch
ProducerMuriel Meynard
WriterPriscilla Pizzato
Cast & characters
Elsa Lepoivre
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Denis Podalydès
as Self - Narrator (voice)
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Olga Turbina
as Self - Archivist
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Fedor Guber
as Self - Grossman's Son
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Alexis Berelowitch
as Self - Grossman's Translator
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Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
as Self - Grossman's Daughter
Olivier Rolin
as Self - Writer
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Vladimir Voinovich
as Self - Writer
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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)
Antony Beevor
as Self - Historian
