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I Invite You to My Execution (2019)

I Invite You to My Execution (2019)

History Documentary
Release Date: 2019, October 30
Directors: Nino Kirtadzé
Countries: France
Production: Zadig Productions, Pumpernickel Films, ARTE
Cast: Frédéric Pierrot, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Sergio D'Angelo, Elena Pasternak, Nina Andriadze, Paolo Mancosu, Carlo Feltrinelli, Jacqueline de Proyart, Georges Nivat, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Nicola Chiaromonte

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.

Keywords:

1950s portrait of an artist soviet union history book editor nobel prize political repression cold war propaganda