Men and Beasts
Люди и звери
Release: 1962-11-02
·Runtime: 200m
·★ 6.0
Drama
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.
Production Countries
East Germany
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Gorky Film Studios
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast
Zhanna Bolotova
as Tanya
Erika Dunkelmann
as frau Haslinger (uncredited)
Anastasiya Filippova
as Stepanida Gavrilovna
Natalya Zorina
as Subbotin's guest (uncredited)
Tamara Makarova
as Anna Andreyevna
Sergei Gerasimov
as Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Peter Reusse
as Otto
Konstantin Bartashevich
as Kuznetsov
Manefa Sobolevskaya
as homeowner
Hans Klering
as official
Nikolay Eryomenko
as Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Olesya Ivanova
as Varvara Andreyevna
Valeri Malyshev
as Gennadiy
Maya Bulgakova
as Galina
Jürgen Frohriep
as corporal (uncredited)
Sergey Nikonenko
as Yuri Pavlov
Mikhail Gluzskiy
as Klyachko
Ivan Kuznetsov
as uncle Nikolai
Vadim Zakharchenko
as Savateyev
Tatyana Gavrilova
as Mariya Nikolayevna
Werner Toelcke
as Caesar
Stanislav Borodokin
as Vovka
Ivan Malré
as argentinean man
Vladimir Solovyov
as division commissar (uncredited)
Vitali Doronin
as Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Evelyn Cron
as Brigitte
Valentina Vladimirova
as Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
Natalya Medvedeva
as Valentina Sergeyevna
Viktor Filippov
as traffic police inspector
Stanislav Mikhin
as traffic police inspector
