Russian Movie Night: 7 Literary Works on Screen
Sit back while Russian literature plays out on the home theater. Life and Fate Moskino
One of the first complaints students and lovers of literature have about Russian novels: They re so long! That might be because they were written over long, long winters, or maybe just because the authors have a lot to say. In any case, that makes them perfect for long, multi-episode series that are great for holiday viewing.
“Life and Fate” (2012)
This 2012 Russian adaptation of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate is an understandably condensed version of the epic novel, which was not published until the 1980s, two decades after the author’s death. Grossman’s novel was dubbed the “Soviet War and Peace” and examines the lives of individual citizens caught up in the maelstrom of World War II. Toggling between the Battle of Stalingrad and the home front life of evacuees from Moscow, this we