Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

Elsa Lepoivre

Self - Narrator (voice)

Denis Podalydès

Self - Narrator (voice)

Olga Turbina

Self - Archivist

Fedor Guber

Self - Grossman's Son

Alexis Berelowitch

Self - Grossman's Translator

Ekaterina Korotkova-Grossman

Self - Grossman's Daughter

Olivier Rolin

Self - Writer

Vladimir Voinovich

Self - Writer

Anthony Beevor

Self - Historian

Bernard Pivot

Self - TV Host (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Vladimir Lenin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Solomon Mikhoels

Self - Actor (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Antony Beevor

Self - Historian