The fate of man (film)

With the outbreak of World War II, driver Andrei Sokolov ( Sergei Bondarchuk ) has to part with his family. Already in the first months of the war, he is injured and captured. Sokolov survives the hell of a Nazi concentration camp , thanks to his courage, avoids being shot and, finally, escapes from captivity behind the front line to his own with the arrested German officer. On a short frontal vacation to his small homeland in Voronezh, he learns that his wife and both daughters died during the bombing . Of those close to him, only his son remained, who became an officer. Returning to the front, Andrei receives news that his son died on the last day of the war.

After the war, the lonely Sokolov works away from his native places - in Uryupinsk ( Stalingrad region ). There he meets a little boy Ivan, left an orphan. The boy’s mother died during a German bombardment of a train, and his father went missing during the war. Sokolov decides to inform the boy that he is his father, and this gives himself and the boy hope for a new happy family life.

• The episode of farewell to his wife at the station - at the railway station of the city of Tambov .
• The episode “Refugees” is a field road next to the current Tambov bus station and the Tatar Val.
• The episode in which Soviet prisoners of war are taken to the temple is in the Holy Epiphany Church in the village of Ternovoye, Semiluksky District, Voronezh Region ^[1] .
• Meeting with the boy and other post-war episodes - in the Voronezh region (including the Rotunda ) ^[2] .
• Filming also took place in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Region.
• The episode, when Sokolov says goodbye to his son who died on the last day of the war, was filmed in Kaliningrad (in the background you can see the ruins of the Royal Castle of Königsberg).

• Sergey Bondarchuk - Andrey Sokolov
• Pavlik Boriskin - Vanya
• Zinaida Kiriyenko - Irina, wife of Andrei Sokolov
• Pavel Volkov - Ivan Timofeevich, neighbor of the Sokolovs
• Yuri Averin - Muller, camp commandant
• Kirill Alekseev - German major
• Pavel Vinnik - Soviet Colonel
• Evgeny Teterin - writer
• Anatoly Chemodurov - Soviet lieutenant colonel
• Alexander Novikov - a devout soldier
• Lev Borisov - platoon
• Alexander Lebedev - a young soldier (not in the credits)
• Victor Markin - captured military doctor
• Evgeny Kudryashev - captured Kryzhnev, a traitor
• Alexander Kuznetsov - episode
• Vladimir Ivanov - sang, a prisoner of a concentration camp
• Peter Savin - Peter, friend of Andrei Sokolov
• Evgenia Melnikova - apartment owner
• Vyacheslav Berezko - episode ^[3]
• Nikolay Oparin - a prisoner
• Nikolai Pechentsov - a prisoner of a concentration camp
• Andrey Puntus - German officer in the camp
• George Shapovalov - a prisoner of a concentration camp
• Igor Askarov - Anatoly, son of Sokolov
• Georgy Millar - drunken German soldier
• Evgeny Morgunov - fat German soldier (not in the credits)
• Daniil Netrebin - prisoner (not in the credits)
• Peter Mukhin - prisoner (not in the credits)
• Yuri Muyur - German officer (uncredited)
• Victor Lorenz - One-eyed Officer (uncredited)
• Anatoly Nikitin - officer (not in the credits)
• Andrey Karasev - German soldier
• Teuvo H. Huotari - German soldier in the church, reading a piece of paper (not in the credits)
• Mikko Niskanen - German officer (uncredited)

• Script writers:
  • Yuri Lukin
  • Fedor Shakhmagonov
• Director - Sergey Bondarchuk
• Operator - Vladimir Monakhov
• Artists:
  • Ippolit Novoderezhkin
  • Sergey Voronkov
• Composer - Veniamin Basner
• Sound engineer - Yuri Mikhailov
• Film Production Orchestra
  • Conductor - Gregory Hamburg

• Black and white, sound

• The melody performed by the orchestra at the station during the unloading of captured and stolen civilians, as well as the gramophone record, which was broken by Andrei Sokolov - the tango “O Donna Klara”, composed by Jerzy Petersbursky in 1929 (originally - “Tango Milonga”).

• The best film of 1959 according to the survey of the magazine " Soviet Screen "
• Grand prize at the 1959 Moscow International Film Festival
• Grand prize at the X International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia
• Grand prize at the 1960 film festival in Minsk
• The main prize "Crystal Vase"
• Prizes at the Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra International Film Festival
• Prize at the XII International Karlovy Vary Film Festival 1970
• Prize at the 1976 Georgetown International Film Festival

• The Fate of Man on the Internet Movie Database  
• The film "The fate of man" in the online movie theater "Mosfilm"
• French movie poster
• American movie poster