Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)

Elsa Lepoivre as Self - Narrator (voice) Age 53 · Caen, France

Denis Podalydès as Self - Narrator (voice) Age 62 · Versailles, Yvelines, France Denis Podalydès (born 22 April 1963) is a French actor and writer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Denis Podalydès, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia..

Olivier Rolin as Self - Writer Age 78 · Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France Olivier Rolin (born 17 May 1947, in Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French writer. He won the Prix Femina in 1994, for his novel Port-Soudan. His brother Jean is also a writer and journalist. Source: Art...

Bernard Pivot as Self - TV Host (archive footage) Died 2024 · Lyon, Rhône, France Bernard Pivot was a French journalist, interviewer and host of cultural television programmes. In 1985, Pivot created the Championnats mondiaux d'orthographe (world spelling championships). He has bee...

Joseph Stalin as Self - Politician (archive footage) Died 1953 · Gori, Caucasus, Russian Empire [now Georgia] Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leade...

Vladimir Lenin as Self - Politician (archive footage) Died 1924 · Simbirsk Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet R...