The read
It runs a compact 59m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Priscilla PizzatoDirector
- Priscilla PizzatoWriter
- Anna SigalevitchOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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)
Stills
Themes
world war iistalingradbiographyrussian historycensorshipjewish culturepolitical repressionportrait of an artistrussian literaturesoviet union historyliterature historyukrainian literature