Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)

7.0/10 • 59 min • Documentary History

Overview

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)

Olivier Rolin

Self - Writer

Bernard Pivot

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solomon Mikhoels

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian

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