Men and Beasts

Men and Beasts (1962) is a drama film directed by Sergei Gerasimov rated 6.1/10.

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.

Cast

Nikolay Eryomenko

Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov

Tamara Makarova

Anna Andreyevna

Zhanna Bolotova

Tanya

Vitali Doronin

Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov

Natalya Medvedeva

Valentina Sergeyevna

Sergey Nikonenko

Yuri Pavlov

Olesya Ivanova

Varvara Andreyevna

Anastasiya Filippova

Stepanida Gavrilovna

Mikhail Gluzskiy

Klyachko

Vadim Zakharchenko

Savateyev

Tatyana Gavrilova

Mariya Nikolayevna

Sergei Gerasimov

Lvov-Shcherbatsky