Fate of a Man (Mosfilm; United Artists), the agonizing story of a village carpenter whose life is shattered by war, is among the best of the Soviet films, most of them rather disappointing, seen in the U.S. during the current three-year-old cultural exchange. Freely sentimental and seeded now and then with propaganda, the film nevertheless tells a harsh tale unforgettably and well. Hero Sergei Bondarchuk. who directs his own performance with skill, is a broad-faced, stocky man, clownish and touching as a young father, convincingly indomitable as a prisoner in German work camps....
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