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Finding Babel (2015)
Directed by David Novack
Overview
The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather’s writing and in the conflicts of today’s Ukraine and Russia. Babel’s fiction is woven into Andrei’s search with ethereal animation that puts the viewer, like Babel’s readers, between fantasy and reality.
Length 88 minutes
Actors
Liev Schreiber | Marina Vlady | Stéphanie Campion | David Coburn | Andrei Malaev-Babel | Evgeniy Evtushenko | Antonina Pirojkova | Leonid Zorin | Daria Panchenko | Colin David Reese