Destiny (Russian: Судьба, romanized: Sudba) is a 1977 World War II film directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova, Yury Yakovlev, screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's second book, the novel Earthy Love. This film had 57,8 million spectators in 1978. Evgeniy Matveyev was honored with State Prize of the USSR for Destiny in 1978.
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Plot
The plot follows married chairman kolkhoz Zakhar Deryugin, who begins an affair with a young woman Mannya Polivanova during a
harvest in Russian village of 30th. During World War II Zakhar Deryugin is mobilized and sent to the front. While the battles he is taken as a prisoner and makes runaway. Bryukhanov's wife Katya appears in occupation. Not having achieved Katya's consent to cooperation, Germans, having slandered, secretly execute her. Senior son of Deryugin's perishes from a fascist bullet. His mother Evfrosinya burns sleeping fascists in her own house. In return Germans prepare for the retaliatory action, but Zakhar alone with guerrillas rush into village and rescue its inhabitants.
Main cast
Yevgeny Matveyev as Zakhar Deriugin
Olga Ostroumova as Manya
Zinaida Kiriyenko as Efrosinya
Yury Yakovlev as Tikhon
Valeriya Zaklunna as Katerina
Vadim Spiridonov as Fyodor Makashin
Irina Skobtseva as Elizaveta
Viktor Khokhryakov as Chubarov
Vladimir Samoilov as Rodion Anisimov
Stanislav Chekan as Pavel Semyonovich Koshev
Georgi Yumatov as Pekarev, guerrillas
Algimantas Masiulis as Sturmbannführer Zolding