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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Jan 24, 2018 · 59m
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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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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
Olivier Rolin
Self - Writer
Vladimir Voinovich
Self - Writer
Directed by Priscilla Pizzato

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Released
Original language
FR
Budget
—
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Production
ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Country
FR

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