Men and Beasts
200 mins
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.
Maria Rouvel
frau Wilde
Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge
Siegfried
Georgiy Sklyanskiy
truck driver
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
herr Haslinger
Lutz Köhlert
Wolfgang Walter
Fredy Barten
cook (uncredited)
Karla Assmus
Annemarie (uncredited)
Renate Melon
Karin (uncredited)
Paul Lehmann
Production Design
Valentin Khlobynin
Sound
Lidiya Zhuchkova
Editor
Mariam Bykhovskaya
Costume Design
Lothar Stäglich
Makeup Artist
Aleksey Smirnov
Makeup Artist
Joachim Dittrich
Costume Design
Monika Behrendt
Assistant Editor
Werner Blaß
Sound
Lev Rogozin
Camera Operator
Boris Kuzovkin
Assistant Production Design
Anatoliy Ivanov
Makeup Artist
Vadim Kornilyev
Assistant Director of Photography
Konstantin Alekseyev
Special Effects