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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 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.
Original Release
04/12/1959
US Release
08/08/1959
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Pavel Boriskin | Vanja |
| Zinaida Kirienko | Irina Sokolova / Irina, wife of Andrei Sokolov |
| Pavel Volkov | Ivan Timofeyevich / Ivan Timofeevich (neighbor Sokolovs) |
| Yuri Averin | Muller / Mueller (the commandant of a concentration camp) |
| Konstantin Alekseev | German Major |
| Pavel Vinnikov | Soviet colonel |
| Evgeniy Teterin | Writer |
| Anatoli Chemodurov | |
| Lev Borisov | |
| Georgi Shapovalov |
Directors
Writers
Yuriy Lukin, Fyodor Shakhmagonov, Mikhail Sholokhov
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Pavel Boriskin | Vanja |
| Zinaida Kirienko | Irina Sokolova / Irina, wife of Andrei Sokolov |
| Pavel Volkov | Ivan Timofeyevich / Ivan Timofeevich (neighbor Sokolovs) |
| Yuri Averin | Muller / Mueller (the commandant of a concentration camp) |
| Konstantin Alekseev | German Major |
| Pavel Vinnikov | Soviet colonel |
| Evgeniy Teterin | Writer |
| Anatoli Chemodurov | |
| Lev Borisov | |
| Georgi Shapovalov | |
| Aleksandr Novikov | (as A. Novikov) / a devout soldier |
| Nikolai Aparin | Captive in the church |
| Vyacheslav Beryozko | (as V. Beryozko) |
| Vladimir Ivanov | |
| L. Kadochkin | Young communist |
| Yevgeni Kudryashov | Kryzhnev |
| Aleksandr Kuznetsov | |
| Aleksandr Lebedev | |
| Viktors Lorencs | |
| Viktor Markin |
