Men and Beasts

Released
1962
3h 20min
10 votes
Drama

Synopsis

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.

Détails techniques

Titre original

Люди и звери

Langue originale

RU

Langues parlées

Russian

Production

Compagnies de production

Gorky Film Studios

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Pays de production

East Germany

Soviet Union

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Mots-clés

corruptioncapitalismgermanyconcentration campprisoner of warsoviet unionconcentration camp prisonerroad tripargentinacar accidentbuchenwaldnazismred army1940smother daughter relationship