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| Directed by | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| Written by | Yuri Lukin Fyodor Shakhmagonov |
| Produced by | Roskino |
| Starring | Sergei Bondarchuk Pavel Boriskin Zinaida Kiriyenko Pavel Volkov |
| Music by | Veniamin Basner |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Fate of a Man (Russian: Судьба человека, translit. Sudjba cheloveka), also released as A Man's Destiny and Destiny of a Man is a 1959 Soviet World War II 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]
- ^ Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 224–225. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ "1st Moscow International Film Festival (1959)". MIFF. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2012-11-03.