Men and Beasts (1962) — drama film. Directed by Sergei Gerasimov. Starring Nikolay Eryomenko, Tamara Makarova, Zhanna Bolotova, Vitali Doronin. This page maps 3 characters and 3 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
Interactive Features for Men and Beasts
Men and Beasts offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:
Character Relationship Map
— Interactive D3-powered visualization of character connections, alliances, and conflicts. Explore how 3 characters interconnect through 3 relationship links.
A displaced soldier's decades-long journey of survival, memory, and eventual family reconciliation after returning to the Soviet Union.
Drama · 6.1/10 · 200 min · 1962
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.
