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)
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
Anthony Beevor
Self - Historian
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
Crew
Priscilla Pizzato
Director, Writer
Yohann Le Rallier
Editor
Valerio Carignano
Director of Photography
Fred Ricci
Color Grading
Muriel Meynard
Producer
Isabelle Zaborowski
Post Production Supervisor
David Sandras
Sound
Anna Sigalevitch
Original Music Composer
Hannah Taïeb
Production Director
Barbara Schölnberger
Researcher
Nicolas Meunier
Graphic Designer
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