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Men and Beasts

Men and Beasts

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 2, 1962

Runtime

3h 20m

Genres

Drama

User Score

56%

Original Title

Люди и звери

Production Companies

Gorky Film Studios, DEFA

Director

Sergei Gerasimov

Description

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.