Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)

January 24th, 20180h 59min

Documentary, History
70%

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.


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