I Invite You to My Execution

57m

Documentary History

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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)

Elena Pasternak

Self - Daughter-in-law

Self - T. Tabidze's Granddaughter

Sergio D'Angelo

Self - Literary Agent

Self - Philosophy Professor

Carlo Feltrinelli

Self - Publisher

Jacqueline de Proyart

Self - Slavic Scholar

Self - Slavic Scholar

Boris Pasternak

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Nikita Khrushchev

Self - Politician (archive footage)

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

Self - Publisher (archive footage)

Nicola Chiaromonte

Self - Writer (archive footage)

Self - Writer (archive footage)