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1959
Fate of a Man, 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.
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Sergei Bondarchuk is often heralded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter stages of Soviet cinema, a reputation primarily established through his monumental adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s *War and Peace*. This historic epic not only garnered an Academy Award but also achieved the distinction of being the most expensive Soviet film ever produced, and arguably, the priciest film of its era. Bondarchuk’s ascent…More
