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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman poster

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

2018 59m 7Movie

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.

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Priscilla Pizzato

Director, Writer

Top Cast

Elsa Lepoivre

Elsa Lepoivre

Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès

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

Olivier Rolin

Self - Writer

Vladimir Voinovich

Self - Writer

Anthony Beevor

Self - Historian

Bernard Pivot

Bernard Pivot

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian