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Finding Babel

Finding Babel

20166.31h 28m

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.

Directed by David Novack
Produced by David Novack
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Top Cast

Liev Schreiber

Liev Schreiber

Self - Isaac Babel (voice)

Marina Vlady

Marina Vlady

Self

Stéphanie Campion

Stéphanie Campion

Self

David Coburn

David Coburn

Self

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Andrei Malaev-Babel

Self

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Self

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Antonina Pirojkova

Self

Leonid Zorin

Leonid Zorin

Self

Daria Panchenko

Daria Panchenko

Self

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Colin David Reese

Self

Themes & Keywords

biography

About Finding Babel

Finding Babel is a animation, documentary film released in 2016 exploring themes of biography. Directed by David Novack, it stars Liev Schreiber, Marina Vlady, Stéphanie Campion. 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.

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