The Mire
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...
Top Billed Cast
Nonna Mordyukova
Matryona
Vadim Spiridonov
Stepan
Andrey Nikolaev
Mitya
Valentina Telichkina
Nina
Valeriy Nosik
Grishka the postman
Featured Crew
Grigoriy Chukhray
Director
Viktor Merezhko
Writer
Konstantin Stepanov
Production Design
Grigoriy Chukhray
Writer
Mikhail Ziv
Original Music Composer
Marina Dobryanskaya
Editor
Yuri Sokol
Director of Photography
Mikhail Demurov
Director of Photography
Lidiya Rakhlina
Costume Design
Klavdiya Gamel
Makeup Artist
Liya Benevolskaya
Sound
Tamara Soldatenkova
Makeup Artist
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