Sergei Bondarchuk. The Fate of a Man (1959)

The hero, played by Bondarchuk, is a simple Russian man whose life is crippled by the war. His wife and daughter are killed when their village is bombed, his only son is killed in action days before the war ends, and he spends much of the war himself in a German prison camp. Contrary to official treatment that saw prisoners as cowards who had not sacrificed their lives for Stalin and motherland, the hero Andrei Sokolov shows a perseverance and quiet courage that all Russians could identify with. This classi br, br,