A human fate
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| German title | A human fate |
| Original title | Судьба человека (Sudba tscheloweka) |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1959 |
| length | 103 minutes |
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| Director | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| script | Juri Lukin , Fyodor Schachmagonow |
| production | Mosfilm |
| music | Weniamin Basner |
| camera | Vladimir Monakhov |
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A Human Fate is a Soviet feature film by Sergei Bondarchuk from 1959 based on the story of the same name by Mikhail Scholokhov, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature . He was Bondartschuk's directorial debut. On the Moscow Film Festival for this he was awarded the Grand Prix .
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After Germany's attack on the Soviet Union began , the carpenter Andrej Sokolow had to say goodbye to his family. He was wounded in the first months of the war and was taken prisoner. He survived a concentration camp for two years and was finally able to flee behind the front line with secret papers, which he handed over to the Red Army . On a short home leave, he finds out that his wife and two daughters were killed in a bomb attack. Only his son, now a young officer, has remained with him. When he returned to the front, he saw the end of the war unscathed. At the victory celebration of his unit, he received the news that his son had been killed on the last day of the war by a German sniper's bullet. Broken in soul, he buries his son in the foreign German soil.
When he was working alone in a strange place after the war, he met the little orphan boy Vanya, whose mother was dead and whose father was killed. Sokolov poses as his father to give the boy and himself a perspective.
With his courage, bravery and indomitable strength, but also his love and humanity, Sokolow embodies the ideal of the Soviet man and thus becomes the identification figure of an entire generation.
Awards
- Grand Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival 1959
- Grand Prize at the X International Film Festival of Czechoslovakia
- Grand Prize at the Minsk Film Festival in 1960.
- Main prize "crystal vase"
- Awards at the Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra International Film Festival
- Price on the XII. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 1970,
- Prize at the 1976 Georgetown International Film Festival
Web links
- Fate of a Man in the Internet Movie Database (English)