
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.

Elsa Lepoivre
Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès
Self - Narrator (voice)
Olga Turbina
Self - Archivist
Fedor Guber
Self - Grossman's Son
Alexis Berelowitch
Self - Grossman's Translator
Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
Self - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier Rolin
Self - Writer
Vladimir Voinovich
Self - Writer
Anthony Beevor
Self - Historian

Bernard Pivot
Self - TV Host (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solomon Mikhoels
Self - Actor (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Antony Beevor
Self - Historian