The Mire

2h 2m

5.7

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...

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova

Vadim Spiridonov

Andrey Nikolaev

Valentina Telichkina

Grishka the postman

Galina Mikeladze

Vera Kuznetsova

Valentina Ushakova

Irina Korablyova

Vladimir Basov Ml.

Mariya Vinogradova

Lidiya Dranovskaya

Vladimir Zamanskiy

military сommissar

Antonina Maksimova

Vladimir Pitsek

Tatyana Tashkova

Tatyana Ignatova

villager (uncredited)

Daniil Netrebin

district inspector (uncredited)

photographer (uncredited)

Vera Blagovidova

old woman (uncredited)

Tamara Loginova

Stepan's traveling companion (uncredited)

Tatyana Kuznetsova

guest at Tanya's wedding (uncredited)

Stanislav Korenev

Serhiy Pidhornyi

Larisa Kronberg

сельская жительница

Vladimir Isayev

Crew

Grigoriy Chukhray

Director, Writer

Viktor Merezhko

Marina Dobryanskaya

Director of Photography

Mikhail Demurov

Director of Photography

Konstantin Stepanov

Production Design

Lidiya Rakhlina

Tamara Soldatenkova

Liya Benevolskaya

Original Music Composer