Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Elsa LepoivreSelf - Narrator (voice)

Denis PodalydèsSelf - Narrator (voice)

Olga Turbina

Olga TurbinaSelf - Archivist

Fedor Guber

Fedor GuberSelf - Grossman's Son

Alexis Berelowitch

Alexis BerelowitchSelf - Grossman's Translator

Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

Ekaterina Korotkova-GrossmanSelf - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier RolinSelf - Writer

Vladimir Voinovich

Vladimir VoinovichSelf - Writer

Anthony Beevor

Anthony BeevorSelf - Historian

Bernard PivotSelf - TV Host (archive footage)

Joseph StalinSelf - Politician (archive footage)

Vladimir LeninSelf - Politician (archive footage)