Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Name: Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Released: 2018-01-24

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2018•59 min•DocumentaryHistory

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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

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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