Finding Babel (2016)

Finding Babel
12+
  • Country:

    USA, France, Canada, Russia, Ukraine

  • Duration:

    88 min

  • Program:

    Competition, 2nd MJFF

  • Type:

    Documentary, Feature

  • Genre:

    biography

  • Director:

    David Novack

  • Producer:

    David Novack

  • Cast:

    Liev Schreiber, Andrei Malaev-Babel, Antonina Pirozhkova, Marina Vlady

About film

Rewards and nominations

Director

David Novack

sound director, producer, stage director, screenwriter, and film editor. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music. He designed and re-recorded Roger Waters’ opera Ça Ira and many documentaries and feature films, including Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, Richard LaGravenese's Living Out Loud, and Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco. Novack has been teaching for several years at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015 he released Finding Babel about the life and work of Russian writer Isaac Babel. The film was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.

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Director

David Novack

sound director, producer, stage director, screenwriter, and film editor. He studied music at the Berklee College of Music. He designed and re-recorded Roger Waters’ opera Ça Ira and many documentaries and feature films, including Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine, Richard LaGravenese's Living Out Loud, and Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco. Novack has been teaching for several years at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015 he released Finding Babel about the life and work of Russian writer Isaac Babel. The film was screened at the Seattle International Film Festival.