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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

7.0 59 mins Documentary   History   2018
ARTE   Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah   Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo  
Director(s): Priscilla Pizzato

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.

Casts of Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Elsa Lepoivre

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Olga Turbina

as Self - Archivist

Fedor Guber

as Self - Grossman's Son

Alexis Berelowitch

as Self - Grossman's Translator

Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

as Self - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier Rolin

as Self - Writer

Vladimir Voinovich

as Self - Writer

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

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