Isaac Babel's works, challenging the reality of life under totalitarianism, led to his arrest and execution in 1940. His grandson, Andrei Malaev-Babel, explores the turbulent history echoed in his grandfather's writing and modern Ukraine and Russia conflicts, intertwining fiction with ethereal animation.
Finding Babel
Isaac Babel's writings uncovered the harsh reality of life under totalitarian rule, leading to his imprisonment and eventual death in 1940.