''Marina's Destiny'' (, ) is a 1953

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drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by Viktor Ivchenko. It was entered into the

1954 Cannes Film Festival The 7th Cannes Film Festival took place from 25 March to 9 April 1954. French writer and filmmaker Jean Cocteau served as jury president for the main competition. This was the last festival with a predominantly French jury. The Grand Prix was aw ...

Plot

The story takes place in the Ukrainian village of Lebedivka. Marina Vlasenko, a hardworking peasant woman, eagerly awaits the return of her husband, Terentiy Vlasenko, who left five years earlier to study agronomy at the Kyiv Agricultural Institute on the kolkhoz's recommendation. However, after his return, Marina's happiness is short-lived. On the very first evening, Terentiy asks for a divorce, claiming that she is no longer his equal, that he has spiritually and intellectually outgrown her, and that he cannot bury his talent in the earth. He wants to move to the city to pursue science and write a dissertation. Marina is left alone, raising their daughter while dedicating herself to work and study. For an entire year, she conducts laboratory experiments to increase the sugar content of beets. The kolkhoz management appoints her as the leader of a new team within the collective farm, allowing her to move her experiments from the laboratory to the field. Marina’s team achieves success, harvesting a rich crop of beets (905 centners per hectare) with increased sugar content. As a result of her significant achievements in agriculture, Marina Panasivna is awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. It is believed that the character of Marina was based on Marina Stepanovna Suvorova, the leader of the Zemetchinsky beet farm. Like Marina, Suvorova worked on growing sugar beets and was awarded the title of

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Cast

* Yekaterina Litvinenko *

Nikolai Gritsenko Nikolai Olimpievich Gritsenko or Mykola Olimpiiovych Hrytsenko (December 8, 1979) was a Soviet theater and film actor. He appeared in more than 30 films between 1942 and 1978. Gritsenko also was member of the Vakhtangov Theatre company in Mosco ...

Tatyana Konyukhova Tatyana Georgyevna Konyukhova (; 12 November 1931 – 2 April 2024) was a Soviet actress. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). She was also a Member of the CPSU from 1967. Biography Tatyana Konyukhova was born on 12 November 1931 in Tashkent ( ...

* Les Serdyuk * Mikhail Kuznetsov * Boris Andreyev * Nonna Koperzhinskaya * Rimma Manukovskaya *

Leonid Bykov Leonid Fedorovich Bykov (, ; 11 December 1928, in Znamenka village, Artemivsk Okruha of Ukrainian SSR – 11 April 1979, in Kyiv Oblast of Ukraine, USSR) was a Soviet actor, film director, and script writer. He received the " Honored Artist of t ...

* Roza Makagonova *

Mikhail Zadneprovsky Michael is a common masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase ''mī kāʼēl'', 'Who slike-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (''Mīkhāʼēl'' ). The theophoric name is often read as a rhetorical question – "Who slike he Hebrew Go ...

* Olesya Ivanova * M. Belousov * Yury Timoshenko * Klavdiya Khabarova * Yevgeny Matveyev

References

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* 1953 films 1953 drama films 1950s Soviet films Soviet drama films Russian-language drama films 1950s Russian-language films Films directed by Viktor Ivchenko {{1950s-drama-film-stub