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The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.
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.
Top Billed Cast
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
Vladimir Voinovich Self - Writer
Anthony Beevor Self - Historian
Bernard Pivot Self - TV Host (archive footage)
Иосиф Сталин Self - Politician (archive footage)
Vladimir Lenin Self - Politician (archive footage)
Solomon Mikhoels Self - Actor (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler Self - Politician (archive footage)
Никита Хрущёв Self - Politician (archive footage)
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