Destiny of a Man
A hymn to the human spirit, this screen adaptation from the novel by Nobel Prize winner Mikhail Sholokhov. After losing his wife and children during the war with fascist Germany and surviving the horrors of a concentration camp, Andrei Sokolov (played by the film's honored director, War and Peace's Sergei Bondarchuk) marches with the Soviet Army towards Berlin and finds a new destiny with a young orphaned boy. Winner of the Grand Prize at the 1959 Moscow IFF and Special Diploma at the 1970 Karlovy Vary IFF.