Finding Babel

Jun 4 2016 N/A 1h 28m
Animation, Biography, 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.

Plot

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.

Written by

Andrei Malaev-Babel, David Novack

Directed by

David Novack

Cast

Liev Schreiber, Andrei Malaev-Babel, Antonina Pirojkova

Crew

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Production Countries

Canada, United States of America, Ukraine

Languages

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

Trailers
Finding Babel Official Trailer 1 (2016) - Documentary
Scores
# of Votes
34
Average Rating
7.4 out of 10
Metascore
65
Popularity
NA