| Destiny | |
| Director: | Yevgeny Matveyev |
| Music: | Yevgeny Ptichkin |
| Cinematography: | Victor Yakushev Genadiy Tsekaviy |
| Studio: | Mosfilm |
| Runtime: | 170 min. |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
Destiny (Russian: Судьба|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.[1] Evgeniy Matveyev was honored with State Prize of the USSR for Destiny in 1978.[2]
The love story of married chairman of kolkhoz Zakhar Deryugin to young woman Mannya Polivanova during a harvest in Russian village of 30th. During 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.