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.

Documentary History

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))