Destiny of a Man (1959) (English subtitles). Part 1/4.
A screen adaptation of the story of the same name by Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov, a Nobel Prize winner. Andrei Sokolov, the film's protagonist, had lost in the war with fascist Germany his wife and children, had survived the horrors of a concentration camp. He was already being led to be shot, but at the last minute the camp's commandant, Muller, revoked the sentence. After his release from the camp, Andrei Sokolov marched with the Soviet Army as far as Berlin. But Fate would not stop testing him: on Victory Day he got the news of his son Anatoly's death. And in spite of the fact that he seemed to have lost everything, he remained a good human being and became a father to an orphaned boy. The great Russian director and actor Sergei Bondarchuk played the leading character in his own film, which was to become a hymn to human spirit and faith in life.
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Crew:
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Script: Yuri Lukin, Fyodor Shakhmagonov
Camera: Vladimir Monakhov
Music by: Veniamin Basner
Cast:
Sergei Bondarchuk,
Pavlik Boriskin,
Zinaida Kirienko,
Pavel Volkov,
Yuri Averin,
K. Alexeyev,
Pavel Vinnikov,
Yevgheny Teterin,
Anatoly Chemodurov,
Lev Borisov,
Georgy Shapovalov.
Awards:
* Grand Prize at the Moscow IFF, 1959
* Special Diploma at the Karlovy Vary IFF, 1970
© MOSFILM, 1959.
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Internet Movie Database:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053317/
RUSCICO:
http://www.ruscico.com/dvd.php?lang=en&dvd=109
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Subtitles from original DVD.
very good....these scenes give me hope ......thank so much!!!
caisacarita 4 months ago
I enjoyed so much.A fantastic film which I have read the short story more times.
gunasekaraupul5 5 months ago