Documentary ·History · France · 2018 · 59m

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Le Manuscrit sauvé du KGB

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman poster
Director
Priscilla Pizzato
Cast
Elsa Lepoivre as Self - Narrator (voice) Denis Podalydès as Self - Narrator (voice) Olga Turbina as Self - Archivist Fedor Guber as Self - Grossman's Son Alexis Berelowitch as Self - Grossman's Translator Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman as Self - Grossman's Daughter
Crew
Valerio Carignano — Director of Photography Yohann Le Rallier — Editor Anna Sigalevitch — Original Music Composer Priscilla Pizzato — Writer Muriel Meynard — Producer
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.

Mood & Themes
world war iistalingradbiographyrussian historycensorshipjewish culturepolitical repressionportrait of an artistrussian literaturesoviet union historyliterature historyukrainian literature
Key Collaborators
Priscilla Pizzato Director Valerio Carignano Director of Photography Yohann Le Rallier Editor Anna Sigalevitch Original Music Composer Priscilla Pizzato Writer Muriel Meynard Producer
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