![]() She thinks that Viktor doesn't care as much about Tolya as he does about their teenaged daughter, Nadia. ![]() Lyudmila has a son by a prior marriage, Tolya, who is fighting on the front. Although they are still outwardly polite, they have grown distant from each other. Viktor is basically an Author Avatar for Vasily Grossman, and the actor is costumed to look just like Grossman. ![]() Although he is married, he's taken a fancy to Maria Ivanova, the attractive wife of his colleague Pyotr. Viktor is a Jew, who has to deal with anti-Semitism in Soviet society, while worrying about the more dire threat to his mother, somewhere behind the German lines. Viktor Shtrum: A physicist, evacuated to Kazan after the Germans came to the gates of Moscow, still there a year later.The series, like the novel it is based on, is a sprawling account of life in the Soviet Union in World War II, specifically 1942-43, during the battle of Stalingrad. It is based on the famous 1960 novel Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman. Life and Fate is a 2012 Russian television miniseries, lasting 12 episodes. ![]()
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