Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

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.

• Priscilla PizzatoDirector
• Priscilla PizzatoWriter
• Anna SigalevitchOriginal Music Composer

• Elsa LepoivreSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Denis PodalydèsSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Olga TurbinaSelf - Archivist
• Fedor GuberSelf - Grossman's Son
• Alexis BerelowitchSelf - Grossman's Translator
• Ekaterina Korotkova-GrossmanSelf - Grossman's Daughter
• Olivier RolinSelf - Writer
• Vladimir VoinovichSelf - Writer
• Anthony BeevorSelf - Historian
• Bernard PivotSelf - TV Host (archive footage)
• Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)
• Vladimir LeninSelf - Politician (archive footage)