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The Mire (1978)
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...
Directing:
Writing:
Stars:
- Grigoriy Chukhray
Writing:
- Viktor Merezhko
- Grigoriy Chukhray
Stars:
Release Date: 1978-10-29
4.7/10
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- Country: SU
- Language: Pусский
- Runtime: 122
Nina
old woman
chairman
Misha
Petya
Matryona
district inspector (uncredited)
Stepan's traveling companion (uncredited)
truck driver
Stepan
Mitya
Grishka the postman
Katya
Kornakov
Kornakova
priest
Mariya
Tanya
Faina
villager
villager
military сommissar
сельская жительница
villager
villager
Semyonov
villager
Lida
guest at Tanya's wedding (uncredited)
Grishka the postman
Tanya
Semyonov
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