Il destino di un uomo

Titolo originale: Sudba cheloveka

1959
T
1h 43min

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Un soldato sovietico, Andrei Sokolov, è stato separato della sua famiglia dalla seconda guerra mondiale. Soffrendo nella prigionia nazista, sogna di trovare i suoi cari dopo la vittoria. Ma ... Leggi tuttoUn soldato sovietico, Andrei Sokolov, è stato separato della sua famiglia dalla seconda guerra mondiale. Soffrendo nella prigionia nazista, sogna di trovare i suoi cari dopo la vittoria. Ma il destino crudele è andato diversamente.Un soldato sovietico, Andrei Sokolov, è stato separato della sua famiglia dalla seconda guerra mondiale. Soffrendo nella prigionia nazista, sogna di trovare i suoi cari dopo la vittoria. Ma il destino crudele è andato diversamente.

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Sergey Bondarchuk

Andrey Sokolov

Pavel Boriskin

Vanyushka
(as Pavlik Boriskin)

Zinaida Kirienko

Irina Sokolova
(as Z. Kirienko)

Pavel Volkov

Ivan Timofeevich
(as P. Volkov)

Yuri Averin

Müller
(as Yu. Averin)

Konstantin Alekseev

German Major Engineer
(as K. Alekseev)

Pavel Vinnikov

Soviet Colonel
(as P. Vinnikov)

Evgeniy Teterin

Writer
(as E. Teterin)

Anatoli Chemodurov

Soviet Artillery Lieutenant Colonel
(as A. Chemodurov)

Aleksandr Novikov

Soviet Devout Soldier
(as A. Novikov)

Lev Borisov

Platoon Commander
(as L. Borisov)

Viktor Markin

Military Doctor
(as V. Markin)

Yevgeni Kudryashov

Kryzhnev
(as E. Kudryashov)

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Vladimir Ivanov

Lead Singer
(as V. Ivanov)

Pyotr Savin

Pyotr
(as P. Savin)

Yevgeniya Melnikova

Landlady
(as E. Melnikova)

Vyacheslav Beryozko

Regia
- Sergey Bondarchuk
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7tom neal

suffering?

This first directorial effort from actor Bondarchuk (mainly known for his monumental War and Peace) shouldn't have starred the director. His ruddy countenance didn't convince me one bit he suffered through all the mishaps in his life during the Great War. Furthermore I found it very hard to believe the Germans went to so much effort to save the lives of these Untermenschen. There were good performances though and it is shot beautifully.

Watch instead Come and See (Idi i Smotri) for a shattering experience of the Great War.

Vincentiu

impressive

a Sholokhov adaptation. powerful and honest. a Bondarchuk gem. and map of a war. it is a great Soviet film. not only as artistic work or testimony about elements of a period. not as sign of post Stalin evolution of art. but for silence of images. for the message after decades to its viewer. because the fate of man is, in fact, the fate of East Europe in last period of XX century. sufferance, pain and death. and delicate hope as freedom space. love as only gun against cruelty of a time. camps as metaphor for Nazi and Soviet system. fear, struggle for survive, guilty because innocence is only fiction. and sense of life, again and again, as fruit of battle against yourself. a film about life. pure life. without exception or pink ingredients. cold, bitter, strange but beautiful. if you discover force to remain yourself in middle of each storm.

9clanciai

Russian heavyweight with all the miseries of the second world war

Sergei Bondarchuk directs the film and plays the lead himself. Thus he dominates the entire film from beginning to the end, and although he is a most qualified actor and director, you lack the smallest shade of polyphony. The story is by Mikhail Sholokhov, the main Soviet nationalist, and his tendencies to glorify Soviet Russia shines through especially in his treatment of the Germans, who are all abominable stereotypes - with the exception of one drunkard and the final general. There is not a shred of the slightest sense of humour in the film and almost no smiles even, except in the last moment when the boy comes in and and lets in some well needed and most comforting sunshine. Thus the dreadful story ends with the victory of humanity. It's a masterpiece, of course, but the whole film is a slow and depressing ordeal.

7CinemaSerf

The Fate of a Man

"Sokolov" (Sergey Bondarchuk) hopes that his warrior days are behind him after the civil war as he settles down with sweetheart "Irina" (Zinaida Kirienko) and starts a family. Sadly for him, the Nazis don't share his desires for a peaceable life and so he is duly conscripted into the Soviet army. Like so many of his counterparts, he waves goodbye to his family promising to return but having no real idea when or if he shall. Things definitely don't get off to a good start when he is captured by the invaders and imprisoned amidst a perilous environment of arbitrary killings regardless of whether you are a prisoner of war, a Russian citizen or a Jew. With the impetus of the war shifting, though, he manages to escape and we follow his attempts to make it back home to his family. Now this is told in retrospective so we do know what the outcome of his searching is going to be and as we near the denouement we find a character that's utterly devoid of hope - until the young lad "Vanya" (a joyous effort from Pavel Boriskin) makes an unpredictably profound impact on the older man now largely bereft of purpose. The wartime photography delivers strongly here illustrating the mayhem and chaos brought by the indiscriminate activities of their enemy and, latterly, their own forces whilst clearly demonstrating the horrors randomly inflicted on the population. Bondarchuk is also expert at portraying a character that is simple, decent and ultimately one who wants merely to be left to the joys of his family and his hard work. That's especially poignant when he is facing death at the hands of the prison camp commandant who sees the killing of his inmates as little different from sport. There's a tiny bit of religiosity in here too, which I thought added an extra human dimension to a story that could just as easily be applied to any of a million foot soldiers fighting in WWII without knowing what was going on at home. If the last scene doesn't bring a lump to your throat...

8MogwaiMovieReviews

I Never Feel Like Eating After Only One Glass

A WWII Soviet soldier is captured by the Nazis but strives to escape and return home to his family.

Another of those great Russian war films from the late 50s/early 60s, which, as with Japan, seems to have been the nation's best era for cinema. The quicksilverlike photography is predictably superlative, and there are solid performances all round, especially from the lead, Sergey Bondarchuk, who also directed the film.

There's a number of clumsy transitions between scenes in the last half hour of the film that don't really work, and it perhaps runs a little out of steam once he has escaped, but that's about the most I can come up with in terms of criticism, and the final impression one takes away is less of battlefields than the healing, rebuilding and moving on from them that has to take place afterwards.

Well worth watching if you're in the mood for a 90-minute war epic, alongside The Cranes are Flying and Ballad of A Soldier.

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The Best Film in the poll of the magazine "Soviet Screen" in 1960.

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Citazioni
Sokolov: [Snaps to attention] Prisoner Sokolov reporting as ordered.
Muller: So four cubic meters is too much to quarry, eh?
Sokolov: It is, Commandant, far too much.
Muller: And you need only one cubic meter for your grave, right?
Sokolov: Yes, that's quite enough for a grave. Even there'd be room to spare.
Muller: I'm going to do you a great honor. I'll shoot you with my own pistol.
[Gesturing with his gun]
Muller: Let's go into the yard.
Sokolov: Whatever you say.
[Turns sharply about face]
Muller: Have a drink before you die, Russian Ivan. To the triumphant armies of the fatherland.
[Officers around the table stand for the toast]
Sokolov: [Places his drink down on the table] I appreciate it, but I'm not much of a drinker.
Muller: You refuse to drink to our victory?
[Goes to the table, returns with a piece of bread]
Muller: Very well, then. I propose you drink to your death.
Sokolov: To my death and my release from this torment, I will drink.
[Drinks entire glass of vodka in one draught, places the glass on the table and the bread on the top of the glass]
Sokolov: I'm ready now, Herr Commandant, come on.
Muller: Have a bite to eat before you die.
Sokolov: I never feel like eating after only one glass.
Muller: [Pours another glass full, offers him the bread and glass] Don't be shy, go ahead.
Sokolov: [Drinks second glass dry, replaces the glass and bread] . Sorry, Herr Commandant, but I don't eat after two glasses, either.
Muller: [Officers at table, laughing and applauding: Bravo! It's incredible. He's had a whole bottle without eating anything!. Commandant returns to table, slowly pours a third drink, filling the glass to the brim]
Sokolov: [Takes third glass and bread from the Commandant. Pauses, then drinks entire glass while staring at Commandant. Takes a tiny bit of bread, leaves the rest with the glass on the table]
Muller: [Ordering his officers to be silent] Listen here, Sokolov. You're a good Russian soldier. A brave soldier. I'm a soldier also. And I respect a worthy enemy. I'm not going to shoot you. This morning our invincible armies reached the Volga and have taken complete possession of Stalingrad. And to this marvelous news you owe your life which I generously give back to you. Return to your barracks.
[Picks up a loaf of bread and butter from the table]
Muller: Take this with you, for your courage.