Musicians: Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey Blythe and Max Pownallįirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2011. Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate created a portrait of the Soviets in WW2 that revealed 'the grand sweep of history alongside the granular detail within', writes Nicholas Barrett. Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead. Soldiers.Gerard McDermott, Jonathan Forbes, Henry Devas A two-part radio dramatisation of Vasily Grossmans dark, honest account of the battle of Stalingrad a prequel to Life and Fate - plus Stalingrad: Destiny. Grossman died in 1964, never knowing that his book would be smuggled to the West and eventually published in 1980. Its comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous that the manuscript itself was arrested. Set against the ferocious Battle of Stalingrad, Grossman’s huge novel charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war and is increasingly seen as the most important Russian novel of the 20th century. Kenneth Branagh and David Tennant star in Vasily Grossman’s epic saga. Viktor has a revelatory breakthrough in his research but his wife Lyuda learns of the death of her son and her grief drives a wedge between the couple: Viktor is drawn to the kindness of Marya, the wife of his close colleague. It's October 1942 and the Russians are defending Stalingrad from the ferocious attack of the Germans. Viktor, a nuclear physicist, is evacuated with his family from Moscow eastwards to Kazan.
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