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Men and Beasts

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.

1962 |3h 20m |  Drama

Cast

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Nikolay Eryomenko

Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov

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Tamara Makarova

Anna Andreyevna

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Zhanna Bolotova

Tanya

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Vitali Doronin

Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov

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Natalya Medvedeva

Valentina Sergeyevna

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Sergey Nikonenko

Yuri Pavlov

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Olesya Ivanova

Varvara Andreyevna

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Anastasiya Filippova

Stepanida Gavrilovna

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Mikhail Gluzskiy

Klyachko

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Vadim Zakharchenko

Savateyev

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Tatyana Gavrilova

Mariya Nikolayevna

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Peter Reusse

Otto

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Werner Toelcke

Caesar

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Stanislav Borodokin

Vovka

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Valeri Malyshev

Gennadiy

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Ivan Kuznetsov

uncle Nikolai

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Konstantin Bartashevich

Kuznetsov

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Maya Bulgakova

Galina

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Manefa Sobolevskaya

homeowner

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Viktor Filippov

traffic police inspector

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Stanislav Mikhin

traffic police inspector

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Georgi Shapovalov

drunk driver

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Evelyn Cron

Brigitte

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Ivan Malré

argentinean man

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Hans Klering

official

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Jürgen Frohriep

corporal (uncredited)

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Erika Dunkelmann

frau Haslinger (uncredited)

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Valentina Vladimirova

Varvara Andreyevna's guest (uncredited)

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Vladimir Solovyov

division commissar (uncredited)

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Natalya Zorina

Subbotin's guest (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

Russian

Budget

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