Destiny of a Man

Based on the story by Mikhail Sholokhov

A screen adaptation of the story by Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokov, a Nobel Prize winner. Andrei Sokolov, the film's protagonist, had lost in the World War II his wife and children, had survived the horrors of a concentration camp. He was already being led to be shot, but at the last minute the camp's commandant revoked the sentence. After his release from the camp, Andrei Sokolov marched with the Soviet Army as far as Berlin. But Fate would not stop testing him: on Victory Day he got the news of his son Anatoly's death. He seemed to have lost everything, but he remained a human being and became a father to an orphaned boy.

This film was to become a hymn to human spirit and faith in life.