The fascinating path to ‘Finding Babel’
On the 75th anniversary of Russian-Jewish writer Isaac Babel’s execution, his grandson searches for answers to better understand the man he never met.
‘THERE HAVE been other documentaries about him [Isaac Babel] and we didn’t want this to be just some old photos and all the facts of his life. We wanted to find a way to incorporate his voice as a writer, and to understand who he really was as a person,’ says his grandson Andrei Malaev-Babel, seen h