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"Destiny of a Man"
1959
Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk

Russian filmmaker Sergei Bondarchuk stars in this screen adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov's novel. After losing his family and surviving a concentration camp during WWII, Andrei Sokolov marches with the Soviet Army towards Berlin in search of a new life. This eye-opening hymn to the human spirit was an enormous success and won Grand Prize at the 1959 Moscow International Film Festival and the Special Diploma at the 1959 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.  103 minutes.