Men and Beasts (1962)
Люди и звери
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.
- Date of release
- 1962-11-02
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (11)
- Runtime
- 3h 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Sergei Gerasimov
Casting
- 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
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