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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)
Directed by Priscilla Pizzato
Documentary, History · 59m
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)
O
Olga Turbina
Self - Archivist
F
Fedor Guber
Self - Grossman's Son
A
Alexis Berelowitch
Self - Grossman's Translator
E
Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
Self - Grossman's Daughter
Olivier Rolin
Self - Writer
V
Vladimir Voinovich
Self - Writer
A
Anthony Beevor
Self - Historian
Bernard Pivot
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Crew
- Director
- Priscilla Pizzato
- Writer
- Priscilla Pizzato
- Director of Photography
- Valerio Carignano
- Original Music Composer
- Anna Sigalevitch
- Editor
- Yohann Le Rallier
- Producer
- Muriel Meynard
Details
- Original title
- Le Manuscrit sauvé du KGB
- Release date
- 2018-01-24
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Original language
- FR
- Spoken languages
- English, French, Russian
- Countries
- France
- Production
- ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo