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Isaac Babel's writings are subversive masterpieces, challenging the ideology of the early Soviet Union, and resulting in his arrest and execution in 1940. On the 75th anniversary of Isaac Babel's execution, Finding Babel follows Andrei Malaev-Babel, his grandson, on a journey to come closer to some sense of truth. Hoping to better understand Babel's powerful artistic method and elusive persona, Andrei journeys through Ukraine, France and Russia locations deeply tied to the story of his grandfather. He confronts lingering traces of a turbulent history that echo in Babel’s writing and in the conflicts and climate of today’s Ukraine and Russia.
With each stop, Andrei gets closer to the complex stories that Babel wrote with depth and hidden meaning. Ultimately, through powerful interviews and a painful examination of Babel’s NKVD file, Andrei engages with his grandfather’s arrest, torture and execution. Babel’s life story and his fiction are woven into Andrei’s search with ethereal animation that puts viewers, like Babel’s readers, somewhere between reality and fantasy.
Original Release
10/28/2016
US Release
10/28/2016
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Liev Schreiber | Isaac Babel (voice) / Isaac Babel |
Antonina Pirojkova | Self |
Marina Vlady | Self |
Yevgeniy Yevtushenko | Self |
Leonid Zorin | Self |
Jean Alibert | Self |
Alyona Andronati | Self |
Dasha Appolonova | Self |
Carol Avins | Self |
Guillaume Bachelé | Self |
Directors
Writers
Andrei Malaev-Babel, David Novack
Cast
Name | Character |
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Liev Schreiber | Isaac Babel (voice) / Isaac Babel |
Antonina Pirojkova | Self |
Marina Vlady | Self |
Yevgeniy Yevtushenko | Self |
Leonid Zorin | Self |
Jean Alibert | Self |
Alyona Andronati | Self |
Dasha Appolonova | Self |
Carol Avins | Self |
Guillaume Bachelé | Self |
Kevin Barber | Self |
Christian Benedetti | Self |
Sima Berezanskaya | Self |
Robert Bradford | Self |
Stéphanie Campion | Self |
Casserley Cielo | Self |
David Coburn | Self |
Damian Cocoran | Self |
Mark Comer | Self |
Chris Alexey Dias | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Roger Waters | Executive Producer |
Alexis Zoullas | Executive Producer |
Nikita Kiselev | Producer |
Irina Margolina | Producer |
Nick Morgulis | Producer |
David Novack | Producer |
Dylan Hansen-Fliedner | Producer |