Men and Beasts (1962)
All the adventure a man can live, he lives.
1962-11-02
East Germany, Soviet Union
200 Min.
PG-13
Drama
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.
Cast
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Anna Andreyevna
Tanya
Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Valentina Sergeyevna
Yuri Pavlov
Varvara Andreyevna
Stepanida Gavrilovna
Klyachko
Savateyev
Mariya Nikolayevna
Lvov-Shcherbatsky
frau Wilde
Siegfried
Otto
Caesar
Vovka
Gennadiy
uncle Nikolai
Kuznetsov
Galina
homeowner
traffic police inspector
traffic police inspector
truck driver
drunk driver
herr Haslinger
Brigitte
Wolfgang Walter
argentinean man
official
corporal (uncredited)
frau Haslinger (uncredited)
cook (uncredited)
Annemarie (uncredited)
Karin (uncredited)
Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
division commissar (uncredited)
Subbotin's guest (uncredited)
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