I Invite You to My Execution (2019)

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.

Release Date : October 30, 2019

Runtime : 57m

Genre : Documentary, History  

Companies : Zadig Productions, Pumpernickel Films, ARTE

Countries : France

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