Destiny (1977 film)
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Destiny is a 1977 directed by Yevgeny Matveyev and starring Matveyev, Olga Ostroumova
Olga Ostroumova
Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova is a Russian and Soviet actress, best known for her roles in films Monday Sure Will Come , The Dawns Here Are Quiet and Vasily and Vasilisa...

, Yury Yakovlev
Yury Yakovlev
Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Soviet film actors. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1976....

,screen adaptation of Pyotr Proskurin's second book, the novel
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

  Earthy Love. This film had 57,8 million spectators in 1978. Evgeniy Matveyev was honored with State Prize of the USSR
State Prizes of the Soviet Republics
The State Prizes of the Soviet Republics were each republic counterpart to the USSR State Prize. Each republic granted several different prizes, generally named after writers or artists from the republic, as well as a blanket Komsomol prize for young artists....

 for Destiny in 1978.

Plot

The love story of married chairman of kolkhoz
Kolkhoz
A kolkhoz , plural kolkhozy, was a form of collective farming in the Soviet Union that existed along with state farms . The word is a contraction of коллекти́вное хозя́йство, or "collective farm", while sovkhoz is a contraction of советское хозяйство...

 Zakhar Deryugin to young woman Mannya Polivanova during a
harvest
Harvest
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 in Russian village of 30th. During the World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 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
    Olga Ostroumova
    Olga Mikhailovna Ostroumova is a Russian and Soviet actress, best known for her roles in films Monday Sure Will Come , The Dawns Here Are Quiet and Vasily and Vasilisa...

     - Manya
  • Zinaida Kiriyenko - Efrosinya
  • Yury Yakovlev
    Yury Yakovlev
    Yury Vasilyevich Yakovlev is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed Soviet film actors. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1976....

    - Tikhon
  • Valeriya Zaklunnaya - Katerina
  • Irina Skobtseva
    Irina Skobtseva
    Irina Konstantinova Skobtseva is a Russian/Soviet actress, wife of Sergei Bondarchuk, and mother of Elena and Fyodor Bondarchuk.She first met Sergei shooting Othello in 1955, and became his second wife in 1959. She starred as Pierre Bezukhov's wife Elena Kuragina Bezukhova in the juggernaut War...

    - Elizaveta
  • Viktor Khokhryakov - Chubarov
  • Vladimir Samoylov
    Vladimir Samoylov
    Vladimir Samoylov was a Russian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual foil event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.-References:...

  • Stanislav Chekan

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