I Invite You to My Execution (2019)

7.0/10 57 min Documentary History

Overview

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.

Cast

Frédéric Pierrot

Boris Pasternak (voice)

Sergio D'Angelo

Self - Literary Agent

Georges Nivat

Self - Slavic Scholar

Boris Pasternak

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Joseph Stalin

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

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