Destiny (1977 film)

Destiny
Directed by	Yevgeny Matveyev
Written by	Yevgeny Matveyev, Pyotr Proskurin
Starring	Yevgeny Matveyev Olga Ostroumova Yury Yakovlev
Music by	Yevgeny Ptichkin
Cinematography	Victor Yakushev, Genadiy Tsekaviy
Studio	Mosfilm
Release date(s)	1977 (1977)
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Destiny (Russian: Судьба) is a 1977 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.^[1] Evgeniy Matveyev was honored with State Prize of the USSR for Destiny in 1978.^[2]

Plot

The love story of married chairman of kolkhoz Zakhar Deryugin to young woman Mannya Polivanova during a harvest in Russian village of 30th. During the World War II Zakhar Deryugin is mobilized and going to 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 - Zakhar Deriugin
• Olga Ostroumova - Manya
• Zinaida Kiriyenko - Efrosinya
• Yury Yakovlev - Tikhon
• Valeriya Zaklunnaya - Katerina
• Irina Skobtseva - Elizaveta
• Viktor Khokhryakov - Chubarov
• Vladimir Samoylov
• Stanislav Chekan

References

1. ^ "Destiny" (in Russian). Peoples.Film. http://movie.peoples.ru/name/sudba/. Retrieved October 27, 2009. 
2. ^ "Evgeniy Matveyev" (in Russian). rusactors. http://www.rusactors.ru/m/matveev_e/index.shtml. Retrieved October 27, 2009. 

External links

• Destiny at the Internet Movie Database
• Destiny. Film.Peoples (Russian)
• Destiny. Kino-teatr.ru (Russian)