Finding Babel

The subversive masterpieces of RussianUkrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism and led to his arrest and execution in 1940 In Finding Babel Andrei MalaevBabel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfathers writing and in the conflicts of todays Ukraine and Russia Babels fiction is woven into Andreis search with ethereal animation that puts the viewer like Babels readers between fantasy and reality