Men and Beasts

Men and Beasts

200 mins | Drama | July 7, 1962

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.

Men and Beasts

200 mins | Drama | July 7, 1962

Men and Beasts
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers DEFA, Gorky Film Studios
Original title Люди и звери
Directors Sergei Gerasimov
Writers Sergei Gerasimov, Tamara Makarova

Cast

Nikolay Eryomenko

as Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov

Tamara Makarova

as Anna Andreyevna

Zhanna Bolotova

as Tanya

Vitali Doronin

as Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov

Natalya Medvedeva

as Valentina Sergeyevna

Sergey Nikonenko

as Yuri Pavlov

Olesya Ivanova

as Varvara Andreyevna

Anastasiya Filippova

as Stepanida Gavrilovna

Mikhail Gluzskiy

as Klyachko

Vadim Zakharchenko

as Savateyev

Tatyana Gavrilova

as Mariya Nikolayevna

Sergei Gerasimov

as Lvov-Shcherbatsky

Maria Rouvel

as frau Wilde

Peter Reusse

as Otto

Werner Toelcke

as Caesar

Valeri Malyshev

as Gennadiy

Ivan Kuznetsov

as uncle Nikolai

Maya Bulgakova

as Galina

Manefa Sobolevskaya

as homeowner

Viktor Filippov

as traffic police inspector

Stanislav Mikhin

as traffic police inspector

Georgiy Sklyanskiy

as truck driver

Georgi Shapovalov

as drunk driver

Adolf Peter Hoffmann

as herr Haslinger

Evelyn Cron

as Brigitte

Lutz Köhlert

as Wolfgang Walter

Ivan Malré

as argentinean man

Hans Klering

as official

Jürgen Frohriep

as corporal (uncredited)

Erika Dunkelmann

as frau Haslinger (uncredited)

Fredy Barten

as cook (uncredited)

Karla Assmus

as Annemarie (uncredited)

Renate Melon

as Karin (uncredited)

Valentina Vladimirova

as Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)

Vladimir Solovyov

as division commissar (uncredited)

Natalya Zorina

as Subbotin's guest (uncredited)