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.

Cast:Elsa Lepoivre, Denis Podalydès, Olga Turbina, Fedor Guber, Alexis Berelowitch, Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman,

Genre:Documentary, History,

country:France,

Production:ARTE, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo,