Finding Babel | movie | 2015 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalita | dG1fOUs4RVJZNC1qSXM

Transcript

00:00They came by night, nine men with long poles, wrapped with towels dipped in tar.

00:09I already sense the deadly chill of your eye sockets, filled with tears gone cold.

00:16Everything repeats itself with striking exactness.

00:19My grandfather's name was Isaac Babel.

00:22He was an internationally known Russian author.

00:27If you're interested in what it means to witness history, you can't do with a better writer.

00:34Tyrants fear the poet, and people fear the writer, because they tell the truth.

00:40They tell a much deeper truth.

00:43Roar.

00:44Each one's as bad as the next, as strange as the next, hostile, wild.

00:57He was executed in January of 1940.

01:09I am on the search for the grandfather that I never met.

01:27I'm keeping my diary.

01:29It will be an interesting piece of work.

01:33All of these people were ultimately sacrificed for nothing.

01:56And I closed my last uncaked eye so as not to see the world unravel before me.