Fate of a Man
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| Directed by | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| Written by | Yuri Lukin Fyodor Shakhmagonov |
| Based on | Fate of a Man by Mikhail Sholokhov |
| Produced by | Roskino |
| Starring | Sergei Bondarchuk Pavel Boriskin Zinaida Kiriyenko Pavel Volkov |
| Music by | Veniamin Basner |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
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.