Summary 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. View more details
Directed : David Novack
Written : David Novack Andrei Malaev-Babel
Stars : Liev Schreiber Marina Vlady Andrei Malaev-Babel Antonina Pirojkova
Genres : Animation Biography Documentary
Release date : Oct 28, 2015
Countries of origin : United States Canada France Russia Ukraine
Official sites : Official site
Language : English
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Animation Biography Documentary
Release date : Oct 28, 2015
Countries of origin : United States Canada France Russia Ukraine
Official sites : Official site
Language : English
