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Fate of a Man is a film of genre Drama directed by Serge Bondartchouk released in USA on 8 august 1959 with Serge Bondartchouk
Fate of a Man (1959)
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Add to a movie listDestiny of a Man (Russian: Судьба человека, translit. Sudba Cheloveka) is a 1959 Soviet film adaptation of the novel by Mikhail Sholokhov, and also the directorial debut of Sergei Bondarchuk. In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival; Bondarchuk would win again for the first part of his colossal adaption of Tolstoy's War and Peace, titled Andrei Bolkonsky, six years later.
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The film begins in the Soviet Union in spring of 1946, as truck driver Andrei Sokolov (Bondarchuk) and his young son travel along a road in the country and run into a man Sokolov recognizes as a fellow military driver. Sokolov begins to tell the story of his experiences upon returning from the Russian Civil War and the famine of 1922. A flashback reveals Andrei building a house in Kuban, where he meets and falls in love with his future wife Irina. Soon the pair are married and have a son, Anatoly (nicknamed Tolyushka), and two daughters. Andrei leads a happy family life for 17 years, until the Second World War.Actors
Serge Bondartchouk
(Andrey Sokolov)
Lev Borisov
(platoon commander)
Zinaïda Kirienko
Yevgeny Morgunov
(fat german soldier)
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