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.

• Sergei GerasimovDirector
• Sergei GerasimovWriter
• Aram KhachaturyanOriginal Music Composer
• Pavel ChekalovOriginal Music Composer

• Nikolay EryomenkoAleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
• Tamara MakarovaAnna Andreyevna
• Zhanna BolotovaTanya
• Vitali DoroninPyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
• Natalya MedvedevaValentina Sergeyevna
• Sergey NikonenkoYuri Pavlov
• Olesya IvanovaVarvara Andreyevna
• Anastasiya FilippovaStepanida Gavrilovna
• Mikhail GluzskiyKlyachko
• Vadim ZakharchenkoSavateyev
• Tatyana GavrilovaMariya Nikolayevna
• Sergei GerasimovLvov-Shcherbatsky