Finding Babel

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Finding Babel (2016)

Country: USA, France, Canada, Russia, Ukraine

Duration: 88 min

Director: David Novack

Genre: documentary, biography
Director: David Novack 
Scenario: Andrei Malaev-Babel, David Novack, Kris Liem 
Producer: David Novack 
Operator: Sam Henriques, Scott Shelley 
Composer: Lev 'Ljova' Zhurbin 
Edit: Dylan Hansen-Fliedner, Kris Liem 
Cast: Liev Schreiber, Andrei Malaev-Babel, Antonina Pirozhkova, Marina Vlady, Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Leonid Zorin

Nomination: Documentary Feature

Age limitations: 12+

Screenings

Plot

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.

Trailer

Along with

Беседа-лекция с молодыми уральскими литераторами. «В поисках Бабеля». Рассказ и его окончания