Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Le Manuscrit sauvé du KGB
Release: 2018-01-24
·Runtime: 59m
·★ 7.0
Documentary
History
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.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
ARTE
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Cast
Joseph Stalin
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Antony Beevor
as Self - Historian
Solomon Mikhoels
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
Olivier Rolin
as Self - Writer
Bernard Pivot
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Nikita Khrushchev
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Elsa Lepoivre
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Vladimir Lenin
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Denis Podalydès
as Self - Narrator (voice)
