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.

• ARTE
• Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
• Elsa Lepoivre
• Denis Podalydès
• Olga Turbina
• Fedor Guber
• Alexis Berelowitch
• Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman
• Olivier Rolin
• Vladimir Voinovich