The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a ...
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Title: Fate of a Man (1959)
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| Sergey Bondarchuk | ... | Sokolov | |
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Pavel Boriskin | ... | Vanja (as Pavlik Boriskin) |
| Zinaida Kirienko | ... | Irina | |
| Pavel Volkov | ... | Ivan | |
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Yuri Averin | ... | Muller (as Yu. Averin) |
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Kirill Alekseyev | ... | German Major |
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Pavel Vinnikov | ||
| Evgeniy Teterin | |||
| Anatoli Chemodurov | |||
| Lev Borisov | |||
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Georgi Shapovalov | ||
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Aleksandr Novikov | ... | (as A. Novikov) |
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Nikolai Aparin | ... | Captive in the church (as N. Aparin) |
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Vyacheslav Berezko | ... | (as V. Beryozko) |
| Vladimir Ivanov | |||
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The story of a man (Andrey Sokolov) whose life was ruthlessly crippled by World War II. His wife and daughters were killed during the bombing of his village, he spent some time as a prisoner, and his only son was killed in action only a few days before the victory... Written by Boris Shafir <shafir@hsi.com>
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Soviet UnionRelease Date:
12 April 1959 (Poland) See more »Also Known As:
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Muller: So four cubic meters is too much to quarry, eh?
Sokolov: It is, Commandant, far too much.
Muller: And you need only one cubic meter for your grave, right?
Sokolov: Yes, that's quite enough for a grave. Even there'd be room to spare.
Muller: I'm going to do you a great honor. I'll shoot you with my own pistol.
[Gesturing with his gun]
Muller: Let's go into the yard.
Sokolov: Whatever you say.
[Turns sharply about face]
[...]
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Sokolov: [Snaps to attention] Prisoner Sokolov reporting as ordered.Muller: So four cubic meters is too much to quarry, eh?
Sokolov: It is, Commandant, far too much.
Muller: And you need only one cubic meter for your grave, right?
Sokolov: Yes, that's quite enough for a grave. Even there'd be room to spare.
Muller: I'm going to do you a great honor. I'll shoot you with my own pistol.
[Gesturing with his gun]
Muller: Let's go into the yard.
Sokolov: Whatever you say.
[Turns sharply about face]
[...]
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The work is absolutely stunning visually, at times radical in its framing. It is perfectly understandable that since the film was made only 5 years after Stalin's death the political strictures under which it was made forced the director to be careful to avoid depicting the persecution suffered by returning Soviet POW's under his rule, but by focusing on the suffering they, and most particularly the protagonist, experienced as prisoners in German work camps and the steadfast and heroic endurance they maintained in the face of cruelty and hardship he is completely successful in politically rehabilitating them as patriots, both for their contemporaries and for Soviet posterity. A beautiful and at times quite moving film. Highly recommended.