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The Story Stunning Deeply

On June 22, an exhibition “The Fate of a Man is the Fate of People” was opened in the Excursion and Exhibition Centre “People’s House”. The exhibition based on the collection of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov was dedicated to the 60^th anniversary of the first publication of the story “The Fate of a Man” and the Year of Russian Cinema.

At the presentation of the exhibition the visitors saw a short film “The Pages of the Story” (Mosfilm, 1957) made by the film director B.Kryzhanovsky and M.Tereshchenko soon after the story was published. The roles of the narrator and Andrey Sokolov in this film were acted by Sergei Bondarchuk. The narration is illustrated with the footage of military newsreels and fiction.

The exhibition demonstrates a fiction film “The Fate of a Man” made by the film director S.Bondarchuk at the “Mosfilm” studio in 1959. And he also starred in the film.

Most of the viewers at the exhibition opening ceremony saw this film several times, and again and again, as they say, it stuns profoundly as well as the story itself which was published 10 years after the war.

The story “The Fate of a Man” by M.A.Sholokhov was published in the last issue of 1956 and the first issue of 1957 of the newspaper “Pravda” and had won the worldwide fame and glory. The centre of it is the heroic fate of a Russian soldier befallen by the Great Patriotic War, but the main thing is the tragic theme of a fascist captivity which was carefully avoided at that time.

The story “The Fate of a Man” by M.A.Sholokhov caused lots of responses in the press and letters addressed to the writer. There were confessions of the former fascist prisoners, words of gratitude for raising the theme of war prisoners. Some of these letters are demonstrated at the exhibition for the first time.

The visitors of the exhibition saw items of the Great Patriotic War, photographs, documents, the story “The Fate of a Man” published in foreign languages and the illustrations by the well-known artists O.Vereisky, Y.Rebrov, Kukryniksy and others. Some of them are also exhibited for the first time.

The exhibition will run until November 13, 2016.

Tatyana Balak