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Men and Beasts (1962)

Directed by Sergei Gerasimov

Overview

The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn’t immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.

Length 200 minutes

Actors

Nikolay Eryomenko | Tamara Makarova | Zhanna Bolotova | Vitali Doronin | Natalya Medvedeva | Sergey Nikonenko | Olesya Ivanova | Anastasia Filippova | Mikhail Gluzskiy | Vadim Zakharchenko | Tatyana Gavrilova | Sergei Gerasimov | Maria Rouvel | Friedrich Wilhelm Junge | Peter Reusse | Werner Toelcke | Stanislav Borodokin | Valeri Malyshev | Ivan Kuznetsov | Konstantin Bartashevich | Maya Bulgakova | Manefa Sobolevskaya | Viktor Filippov | Stanislav Mikhin | Georgiy Sklyanskiy | Georgi Shapovalov | Adolf Peter Hoffmann | Evelyn Cron | Lutz Köhlert | Ivan Malré | Hans Klering | Jürgen Frohriep | Erika Dunkelmann | Fredy Barten | Karla Assmus | Renate Melon | Valentina Vladimirova | Vladimir Solovyov | Natalya Zorina