ARTE Documentaries

The KGB Script: The Life and Destiny of Vasiliy Grossman (2018x6)

Air date: Jan 24, 2018

Vasiliy Grossman’s novel “Life and Destiny” is a violent charge against the Stalinist regime and totalitarianism. Confiscated by the KGB in October 1961, the manuscript of the book was locked up in the basement of the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the secret political police.