![]() ![]() His career and life are saved only because he is working on the atomic bomb. A Jewish scientist, a nuclear physicist (Sergey Kuryshev) struggles to maintain his integrity. The story is told through the fate of a single Jewish family. Grossman was a journalist during World War 2 and had covered the Battle of Stalingrad and the liberation of Treblinka extermination camp. ![]() The also rehearsed in Poland in the Auschwitz concentration camp and in the former Soviet Gulag country in the North of Russia. ![]() Director and actors improvised through the whole novel, all 700 pages. The committed and demanding production, which premiered in 2006, lasts three hours and twenty minutes and is in Russian with English surtitles. The novel has been adapted and directed by Lev Dodin, artistic director of the Maly Drama Theatre in St Petersburg. Life and Fate was not published until after his death in 1980. The KGB confiscated all copies of his work, his typewriter, carbon copies and even typewriter ribbons. When he submitted the novel for publication in the late 1960s the parallels he had drawn between Nazism and Soviet Communism were thought to be too dangerous for publication and the book was immediately banned. ![]()
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