The Mire (1978)

  • NR
  • 10/29/1978 (SU)
  • War, Drama
  • 2h 2m

Overview

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War. Peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband at the front, then her eldest son goes missing. Matryona decides to save the youngest son at all costs and shelters him from being drafted into the army in the attic of the house until the end of the war. But it turns out that saving her son, she condemns him to spiritual death, and herself to torment of conscience. A private story about the mother of a deserter grows to epic proportions...

Grigoriy Chukhray

Director, Writer

Viktor Merezhko

Writer

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova's headshot

Nonna Mordyukova

Matryona
Vadim Spiridonov's headshot

Vadim Spiridonov

Stepan
Andrey Nikolaev's headshot

Andrey Nikolaev

Mitya
Valentina Telichkina's headshot

Valentina Telichkina

Nina
Valeriy Nosik's headshot

Valeriy Nosik

Grishka the postman
Vladimir Gusev's headshot

Vladimir Gusev

Misha
Galina Mikeladze's headshot

Galina Mikeladze

Katya
Arkady Smirnov's headshot

Arkady Smirnov

Kornakov

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