The Fate of a Man

The MediaBook studio presents the acclaimed audio book “The Fate of a Man” by the famous Russian Soviet writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Literature—“for the artistic power and completeness of the epic about the Don Cossacks in the decisive time for Russia.” The prize was awarded for the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don.”

Mikhail Sholokhov received a number of the highest awards of the USSR—Stalin Prize (1941), Lenin Prize (1960). Twice Hero of Socialist Labor (1967, 1980), and also a Full Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939).

The book is read by the popular director, stage performer, and dubbing actor Sergey Gorbunov.

When, in the first days of the Great Patriotic War, driver Andrey Sokolov goes to the front, he is wounded and ends up in German captivity. After enduring all the trials of the concentration camp, Andrey manages to avoid execution and escape to his own side. Getting leave and arriving to his home region, he learns that his wife and two daughters died in a bombing. Having gone through the entire war, Andrey receives a notification about the death of his son—an officer at the front—on the last day of the war.

After the war, moving to a foreign place, Andrey meets a boy Vanya—an orphan whose mother also died, and whose father is missing. Andrey tells Vanya that he is his father.

The story was filmed in 1959 by Sergey Bondarchuk, who also played the main role in the film. The film won the top prize at the Moscow Film Festival and brought Sergey Bondarchuk his first major fame.