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.
- Genre: Documentary, History
- Studio: ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
- Keyword: world war ii, stalingrad, biography, russian history, censorship, jewish culture, political repression, portrait of an artist, russian literature, soviet union history, literature history, ukrainian literature
- Cast: Elsa Lepoivre, Denis Podalydès, Olga Turbina, Fedor Guber, Alexis Berelowitch, Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman