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.
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
Olivier Rolin
as Self - Writer
Vladimir Voinovich
as Self - Writer
Anthony Beevor
as Self - Historian
Bernard Pivot
as Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Иосиф Сталин
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Владимир Ленин
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
