Fate of a Man

Fate of a Man
Directed bySergei Bondarchuk
Written byYuri Lukin
Fyodor Shakhmagonov
Based onFate of a Man by Mikhail Sholokhov
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 (Russian: Судьба человека, translit. Sudjba 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. In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.