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Men and Beasts

6.1(11)19623h 20m2

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.

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Language
Russian
  • corruption
  • capitalism
  • germany
  • concentration camp
  • prisoner of war
  • soviet union
  • concentration camp prisoner
  • road trip
  • argentina
  • car accident
  • buchenwald
  • nazism

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East Germany, Soviet Union

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  • GermanyDE

    • TheatricalEast Germany2 Nov 1962
    • TVWest Germany13 Sept 1964
  • RussiaSU

    • PremiereMoscow, premiere7 Jul 1962

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Men and Beasts was released on 2 November 1962.

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