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Men and Beasts

Men and Beasts

1962•3h 20m•6.1/10
Drama

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6.1/10(11)

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.

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Production

Gorky Film Studios, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Language

RU

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Nikolay Eryomenko

Nikolay Eryomenko

Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov

Tamara Makarova

Tamara Makarova

Anna Andreyevna

Zhanna Bolotova

Zhanna Bolotova

Tanya

Vitali Doronin

Vitali Doronin

Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov

Natalya Medvedeva

Natalya Medvedeva

Valentina Sergeyevna

Sergey Nikonenko

Sergey Nikonenko

Yuri Pavlov

Olesya Ivanova

Olesya Ivanova

Varvara Andreyevna

Anastasiya Filippova

Anastasiya Filippova

Stepanida Gavrilovna

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Klyachko

Vadim Zakharchenko

Vadim Zakharchenko

Savateyev

Tatyana Gavrilova

Tatyana Gavrilova

Mariya Nikolayevna

Sergei Gerasimov

Sergei Gerasimov

Lvov-Shcherbatsky

Maria Rouvel

frau Wilde

Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge

Siegfried

Peter Reusse

Peter Reusse

Otto

Werner Toelcke

Werner Toelcke

Caesar

Stanislav Borodokin

Stanislav Borodokin

Vovka

Valeri Malyshev

Valeri Malyshev

Gennadiy

Ivan Kuznetsov

Ivan Kuznetsov

uncle Nikolai

Konstantin Bartashevich

Konstantin Bartashevich

Kuznetsov

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