Finding Babel (2016)
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Country:
USA, France, Canada, Russia, Ukraine
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Duration:
88 min
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Genre:
biography
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Director:
David Novack
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Producer:
David Novack
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Cast:
Liev Schreiber, Andrei Malaev-Babel, Antonina Pirozhkova, Marina Vlady
About film
It's the 75-year anniversary of Babel's execution, and his grandson Andrei Malaev-Babel travels across Ukraine, Russia, and France, visiting places that were important to the writer's life. With every step, Malaev-Babel becomes closer to the hidden depth of the stories his grandfather composed. The film includes interviews with Babel's wife Antonina Pirozhkova, with the writer Leonid Zorin, actress Marina Vladi and poet Evgeniy Evtushenko.
Rewards and nominations
- Seattle International Film Festival 2016 (USA) — Official Selection
Director
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
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.
