Finding Babel (2015)
88 min
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.
- Release date
- October 28, 2016
- Country of origin
- Canada, United States, France, Russia, Ukraine
Cast
- Liev Schreiber as Isaac Babel
- Andrei Malaev-Babel as Self
- Antonina Pirojkova as Self
- Marina Vlady as Self
- Yevgeniy Yevtushenko as Self
- Leonid Zorin as Self
- Jean Alibert as Self
- Alyona Andronati as Self
- Dasha Appolonova as Self
- Carol Avins as Self
Crew
- David Novack · Director
- Andrei Malaev-Babel · Writer
- David Novack · Writer
- David Novack · Producer
- Lev Zhurbin · Composer
- Samuel M. Henriques · Cinematographer
- Scott Shelley · Cinematographer
- Dylan Hansen-Fliedner · Editor
- Kris Liem · Editor
- David Novack · Editor