Men and Beasts
1962The 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.
Acted in
Nikolay Eryomenko
as Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
Tamara Makarova
as Anna Andreyevna
Zhanna Bolotova
as Tanya
Vitali Doronin
as Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
Natalya Medvedeva
as Valentina Sergeyevna
Sergey Nikonenko
as Yuri Pavlov
Olesya Ivanova
as Varvara Andreyevna
Anastasiya Filippova
as Stepanida Gavrilovna
Mikhail Gluzskiy
as Klyachko
Vadim Zakharchenko
as Savateyev
Tatyana Gavrilova
as Mariya Nikolayevna
Sergei Gerasimov
as Lvov-Shcherbatsky
Maria Rouvel
as frau Wilde
Friedrich Wilhelm Junge
as Siegfried
Peter Reusse
as Otto
Werner Toelcke
as Caesar
Stanislav Borodokin
as Vovka
Valeri Malyshev
as Gennadiy
Ivan Kuznetsov
as uncle Nikolai
Konstantin Bartashevich
as Kuznetsov
Maya Bulgakova
as Galina
Manefa Sobolevskaya
as homeowner
Viktor Filippov
as traffic police inspector
Stanislav Mikhin
as traffic police inspector
Georgiy Sklyanskiy
as truck driver
Georgi Shapovalov
as drunk driver
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
as herr Haslinger
Evelyn Cron
as Brigitte
Lutz Köhlert
as Wolfgang Walter
Ivan Malré
as argentinean man
Hans Klering
as official
Jürgen Frohriep
as corporal (uncredited)
Erika Dunkelmann
as frau Haslinger (uncredited)
Fredy Barten
as cook (uncredited)
Karla Assmus
as Annemarie (uncredited)
Renate Melon
as Karin (uncredited)
Valentina Vladimirova
as Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)
Vladimir Solovyov
as division commissar (uncredited)
Natalya Zorina
as Subbotin's guest (uncredited)