Overview
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.
DirectorPriscilla Pizzato
ProducersMuriel Meynard
WritersPriscilla Pizzato
Top Casts
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-Gross...
Self - Grossman's Daughter
Olivier Rolin
Self - Writer
Vladimir Voinovich
Self - Writer
Anthony Beevor
Self - Historian
Bernard Pivot
Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Details
LanguageEnglish, French, Russian
Production companiesARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo
Homepagehttps://www.agatfilms-exnihilo.com/en/catalogue/films/le-manuscrit-sauve-du-kgb
