The Destiny of a Man

1959 [RUSSIAN]

Drama / War

4
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 4162 4.2K

fascist concentration camp

Plot summary

The story of a man 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...

Director

Sergey Bondarchuk Photo
Sergey Bondarchuk

Top cast

Lev Borisov Photo
Lev Borisov as Platoon Commander
Sergey Bondarchuk Photo
Sergey Bondarchuk as Andrey Sokolov
Viktors Lorencs Photo
Viktors Lorencs as One-eyed German Officer
Mikko Niskanen Photo
Mikko Niskanen as German Officer
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
927.49 MB
986*720
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   ro  
24 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 9
1.68 GB
1480*1080
Russian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us   ro  
24 fps
1 hr 41 min
Seeds 22

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Theo Robertson 7 / 10

A Humanist Film With Humanist Faults

Reviewed by jhrclbpmar 8 / 10

Soviet POW's Belatedly Rehabilitated

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.
Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 9 / 10

The Nightmarish Saga of a Survivor

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