Men and Beasts backdrop

Men and Beasts 1962 Directed by Sergei Gerasimov 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.

Production Countries East Germany , Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gnere Drama
Production Companies DEFA , Gorky Film Studios
Release Date 2 November 1962
200 mins
Cast
Nikolay Eryomenko Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Tamara Makarova Anna Andreyevna
Vitali Doronin Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Natalya Medvedeva Valentina Sergeyevna
Sergey Nikonenko Yuri Pavlov
Olesya Ivanova Varvara Andreyevna
Anastasiya Filippova Stepanida Gavrilovna
Tatyana Gavrilova Mariya Nikolayevna
Sergei Gerasimov Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Maria Rouvel frau Wilde
Ivan Kuznetsov uncle Nikolai
Viktor Filippov traffic police inspector
Stanislav Mikhin traffic police inspector
Georgiy Sklyanskiy truck driver
Georgi Shapovalov drunk driver
Adolf Peter Hoffmann herr Haslinger
Evelyn Cron Brigitte
Lutz Köhlert Wolfgang Walter
Ivan Malré argentinean man
Hans Klering official
Jürgen Frohriep corporal (uncredited)
Erika Dunkelmann frau Haslinger (uncredited)
Fredy Barten cook (uncredited)
Karla Assmus Annemarie (uncredited)
Renate Melon Karin (uncredited)
Valentina Vladimirova Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
Vladimir Solovyov division commissar (uncredited)
Natalya Zorina Subbotin's guest (uncredited)