Desc: Chagall, à la Russie, aux ânes et aux autres: Directed by François Lévy-Kuentz. With Marc Chagall. This remarkable film retraces the life and work of the beloved Russian-French artist Marc Chagall - arguably one of the greatest painters of the 20th Century - born in 1887 in Liozno, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (now Belarus).