About
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
Writer
Music
Studio
Gorky Film Studios, DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Original Title
Люди и звери
Original Language
Russian
Cast
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Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
T
Tamara Makarova
Anna Andreyevna
Z
Zhanna Bolotova
Tanya
V
Vitali Doronin
Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
N
Natalya Medvedeva
Valentina Sergeyevna
S
Sergey Nikonenko
Yuri Pavlov
O
Olesya Ivanova
Varvara Andreyevna
A
Anastasiya Filippova
Stepanida Gavrilovna
M
Mikhail Gluzskiy
Klyachko
V
Vadim Zakharchenko
Savateyev
T
Tatyana Gavrilova
Mariya Nikolayevna
S
Sergei Gerasimov
Lvov-Shcherbatsky
M
Maria Rouvel
frau Wilde
F
Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge
Siegfried
P
Peter Reusse
Otto
W
Werner Toelcke
Caesar
S
Stanislav Borodokin
Vovka
V
Valeri Malyshev
Gennadiy
I
Ivan Kuznetsov
uncle Nikolai
K
Konstantin Bartashevich
Kuznetsov
