Fate of a Man

Fate of a Man (Russian: Судьба человека, translit. Sudba Cheloveka), also released as A Man's Destiny and Destiny of a Man is a 1959 Soviet film adaptation of the short story by Mikhail Sholokhov, and also the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk.[1] In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.[2]

Fate of a Man
Directed bySergei Bondarchuk
Written byYuri Lukin
Fyodor Shakhmagonov
Produced byRoskino
StarringSergei Bondarchuk
Pavel Boriskin
Zinaida Kiriyenko
Pavel Volkov
Music byVeniamin Basner
Production
company
Release date
  • August 1959 (1959-08)
Running time
103 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Plot

With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, driver Andrei Sokolov has to part with his family. In May 1942 he is taken prisoner by the Germans. Sokolov endures the hell of a Nazi concentration camp, but thanks to his courage he avoids execution and finally escapes from captivity behind the front line to his own. On a short front-line vacation to his small homeland Voronezh, he learns that his wife and both daughters have died during the bombing of Voronezh by German aircraft. Of those close to him, only his son remained, who became an officer. On the last day of the war, May 9, Andrei receives news that his son has died.

After the war, the lonely Sokolov works as a truck driver away from his native places - in Uryupinsk (Stalingrad Oblast). There he meets a little boy Vanya, who was left an orphan: the boy's mother died during the bombing, and his father went missing during the war. Sokolov decides to tell the boy that he is his father, and by doing so he gives himself and the boy hope for a new happy family life.

Cast

References
  1. Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 224–225. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  2. "1st Moscow International Film Festival (1959)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
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