Kolkhoze

Kolkhoze is the true story of a family spanning four generations and covering more than a century of Russian and French history, up to the war in Ukraine. With a consummate art of storytelling, Emmanuel Carrère manages to make their story our story. We travel through the Bolshevik Revolution, the exile of the White Russians to Europe, two World Wars, the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Putin’s imperial Russia and its wars, while following a family saga that is at once wildly romantic, tragic, and filled with destinies both prestigious and more modest, sometimes dark and tormented.

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Prix Médicis 2025