Men and Beasts (1962)
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.
Director: Sergei Gerasimov
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Nikolay Eryomenko as Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov |
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Tamara Makarova as Anna Andreyevna |
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Zhanna Bolotova as Tanya |
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Vitali Doronin as Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov |
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Natalya Medvedeva as Valentina Sergeyevna |
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Sergey Nikonenko as Yuri Pavlov |
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Olesya Ivanova as Varvara Andreyevna |
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Anastasiya Filippova as Stepanida Gavrilovna |
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Mikhail Gluzskiy as Klyachko |
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Vadim Zakharchenko as Savateyev |
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Tatyana Gavrilova as Mariya Nikolayevna |
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Sergei Gerasimov as Lvov-Shcherbatsky |
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Maria Rouvel as frau Wilde |
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Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge as Siegfried |
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Peter Reusse as Otto |
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Werner Toelcke as Caesar |
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Stanislav Borodokin as Vovka |
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Valeri Malyshev as Gennadiy |
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Ivan Kuznetsov as uncle Nikolai |
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Konstantin Bartashevich as Kuznetsov |
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Maya Bulgakova as Galina |
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Manefa Sobolevskaya as homeowner |
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Viktor Filippov as traffic police inspector |
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Stanislav Mikhin as traffic police inspector |
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Georgiy Sklyanskiy as truck driver |
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Georgi Shapovalov as drunk driver |
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Adolf Peter Hoffmann as herr Haslinger |
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Evelyn Cron as Brigitte |
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Lutz Köhlert as Wolfgang Walter |
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Ivan Malré as argentinean man |
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Hans Klering as official |
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Jürgen Frohriep as corporal (uncredited) |
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Erika Dunkelmann as frau Haslinger (uncredited) |
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Fredy Barten as cook (uncredited) |
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Karla Assmus as Annemarie (uncredited) |
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Renate Melon as Karin (uncredited) |
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Valentina Vladimirova as Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited) |
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Vladimir Solovyov as division commissar (uncredited) |
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Natalya Zorina as Subbotin's guest (uncredited) |
| Directing | Sergei Gerasimov | Director |
| Writing | Sergei Gerasimov | Writer |
| Writing | Tamara Makarova | Story |
| Camera | Vladimir Rapoport | Director of Photography |
| Art | Boris Dulenkov | Production Design |
| Art | Paul Lehmann | Production Design |
| Sound | Aram Khachaturyan | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Pavel Chekalov | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Valentin Khlobynin | Sound |
| Editing | Lidiya Zhuchkova | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mariam Bykhovskaya | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Lothar Stäglich | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksei Smirnov | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joachim Dittrich | Costume Design |
| Editing | Monika Behrendt | Assistant Editor |
| Sound | Werner Blaß | Sound |
| Sound | Emin Khachaturyan | Conductor |
| Camera | Lev Rogozin | Camera Operator |
| Art | Boris Kuzovkin | Assistant Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Anatoliy Ivanov | Makeup Artist |
| Art | Vadim Kornilyev | Assistant Director of Photography |
| Crew | Konstantin Alekseyev | Special Effects |
