LE MANUSCRIT SAUVÉ DU KGB

  • Priscilla Pizzato
  • Documentary
  • 2016
  • 59 min

This film is not the biography of Vasily Grossman, even if his life and the destiny of the characters in his book intersect in a disturbing and dramatic way.
Nor is it the history of Russia through Life and Fate, even if Life and Fate, like very few novels before it, captures the reality of Soviet Russia with lucidity and accuracy.
This film is the story of a novel that shook the Soviet regime and upset its readers. It is an examination of its characters, of the political and philosophical reflections of its author, of its prose, of its humanity.

Production
  • Ex Nihilo
  • Muriel Meynard
Coproduction
  • ARTE

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