Fate of a Man

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

Fate of a Man (‹See Tfd›Russian: Судьба человека, translit. Sudba 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]

  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.