Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
DocumentaryHistory
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 LepoivreSelf - Narrator (voice)
Denis PodalydèsSelf - Narrator (voice)Olga TurbinaSelf - ArchivistFedor GuberSelf - Grossman's SonAlexis BerelowitchSelf - Grossman's TranslatorEkaterina Korotkova-GrossmanSelf - Grossman's Daughter
Olivier RolinSelf - WriterVladimir VoinovichSelf - WriterAnthony BeevorSelf - Historian
Bernard PivotSelf - TV Host (archive footage)
Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Vladimir LeninSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Solomon MikhoelsSelf - Actor (archive footage)
Adolf HitlerSelf - Politician (archive footage)
Nikita KhrushchevSelf - Politician (archive footage)
