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.
Director: Sergei Gerasimov
Writer: Sergei Gerasimov
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
