Finding Babel

Finding Babel

2016 · 88 min · ★ 6.3 · Animation, Documentary

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.

Directed by David Novack

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Liev Schreiber Self - Isaac Babel (voice)
Marina Vlady Self
Stéphanie Campion Self
David Coburn Self
Andrei Malaev-Babel Self
Yevgeny Yevtushenko Self
Antonina Pirojkova Self
Leonid Zorin Self
Daria Panchenko Self
Colin David Reese Self

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