Finding Babel

Name: Finding Babel
Genre: Biography, Animation, Documentary
Released: October 28, 2016
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 65

2016

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| Release Date: October 28, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: 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 andThe 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.… Expand

Director: David Novack

Genre(s): Biography, Animation, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 88 min

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Alan Scherstuhl

Oct 27, 2016

This lit-doc travelogue gains in power, insight, and urgency as it journeys. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Nov 12, 2016

The film serves as a concise biographical portrait and an excellent introduction to the writer's works. Read full review

Robert Abele

Dec 1, 2016

When it’s merely a guided tour marked by sites and talking historians, Finding Babel can feel a little color-by-numbers. (Which may explain the Schreiber-read interludes.) But there are excursions that feel invigorating. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Oct 27, 2016

In what probably qualifies as both an accomplishment and a shortcoming, the movie makes you want to read Babel’s writing instead. Read full review

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