Men and Beasts
1962
200 minutes
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.
Top Cast
Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Tamara Makarova
Anna Andreyevna
Zhanna Bolotova
Tanya
Vitali Doronin
Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Natalya Medvedeva
Valentina Sergeyevna
Sergey Nikonenko
Yuri Pavlov
Olesya Ivanova
Varvara Andreyevna
Anastasiya Filippova
Stepanida Gavrilovna
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Klyachko
Vadim Zakharchenko
Savateyev
Tatyana Gavrilova
Mariya Nikolayevna
Sergei Gerasimov
Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Maria Rouvel
frau Wilde
Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge
Siegfried
Peter Reusse
Otto
Werner Toelcke
Caesar
Stanislav Borodokin
Vovka
Valeri Malyshev
Gennadiy
Ivan Kuznetsov
uncle Nikolai
Konstantin Bartashevich
Kuznetsov
Maya Bulgakova
Galina
Manefa Sobolevskaya
homeowner
Viktor Filippov
traffic police inspector
Stanislav Mikhin
traffic police inspector
Georgiy Sklyanskiy
truck driver
Georgi Shapovalov
drunk driver
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
herr Haslinger
Evelyn Cron
Brigitte
Lutz Köhlert
Wolfgang Walter
Ivan Malré
argentinean man
Hans Klering
official
Jürgen Frohriep
corporal (uncredited)
Erika Dunkelmann
frau Haslinger (uncredited)
Fredy Barten
cook (uncredited)
Karla Assmus
Annemarie (uncredited)
Renate Melon
Karin (uncredited)
Valentina Vladimirova
Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
Vladimir Solovyov
division commissar (uncredited)
Natalya Zorina
Subbotin's guest (uncredited)