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Life and Fate: The Complete Series (Dramatised)

By: Vasily Grossman
Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh, David Tennant, Raquel Cassidy, Greta Scacchi, Adrian Scarborough, Alex Tregear, full cast
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Kenneth Branagh stars in BBC Radio 4's ambitious eight-hour dramatisation of Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman's epic masterpiece set during the Battle of Stalingrad. This powerful work, completed in 1960, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Its comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous that the KGB placed the manuscript under arrest and Grossman was informed his book would not be published for at least 200 years.

Having been a household name as one of Russia's most distinguished war correspondents, Grossman died aged 58 - the banning of his book hastening the end of his life - and he would never know the fate of his masterpiece: smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm, to freedom and eventual publication in the West. Today it is increasingly hailed as the most important Russian novel of the 20th century.

©2011 AudioGO Ltd (P)2011 AudioGO Ltd Entertainment & Performing Arts Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Entertainment War Russia Soviet Union Military Destiny Socialism
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The drama is a beautiful presentation of the events and circumstances that befell the subjects or characters during these fateful times.
Tragic but inspired.
Vasily Grossman is inspired.

A Truly Magnificent Story Presented Dramatically.

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