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Men and Beasts (1962)

Men and Beasts (1962)

Drama
Release Date: 1962, November 2
Directors: Sergei Gerasimov
Countries: Soviet Union, East Germany
Production: Gorky Film Studios, Gorky Film Studios, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast: Konstantin Bartashevich, Anastasiya Filippova, Sergey Nikonenko, Natalya Medvedeva, Stanislav Mikhin, Zhanna Bolotova, Nikolay Eryomenko, Vadim Zakharchenko, Maya Bulgakova, Evelyn Cron, Viktor Filippov, Tatyana Gavrilova

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

1940s capitalism car accident corruption road trip concentration camp mother daughter relationship germany nazism prisoner of war concentration camp prisoner soviet union red army argentina buchenwald