The Mire
Трясина
Release: 1978-10-29
·Runtime: 122m
·★ 4.7
War
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Yuri Suchkov
as photographer (uncredited)
Stanislav Korenev
as secretary
Serhiy Pidhornyi
as Semyonov
Vladimir Gusev
as Misha
Lidiya Dranovskaya
as villager
Daniil Netrebin
as district inspector (uncredited)
Larisa Kronberg
as сельская жительница
Vladimir Isayev
Tatyana Tashkova
as Lida
Nonna Mordyukova
as Matryona
Ivan Ryzhov
as priest
Irina Korablyova
as Tanya
Vadim Spiridonov
as Stepan
Vladimir Zamanskiy
as military сommissar
Nina Agapova
as Faina
Andrey Nikolaev
as Mitya
Nikolay Dupak
as chairman
Mariya Vinogradova
as old woman
Tamara Yarenko
as villager
Tamara Loginova
as Stepan's traveling companion (uncredited)
Galina Mikeladze
as Katya
Vladimir Pitsek
as truck driver
Valeriy Nosik
as Grishka the postman
Arkady Smirnov
as Kornakov
Vladimir Basov Ml.
as Petya
Svetlana Zhgun
as villager
Antonina Maksimova
as villager
Tatyana Kuznetsova
as guest at Tanya's wedding (uncredited)
Vera Kuznetsova
as Kornakova
Valentina Ushakova
as Mariya
Vera Burlakova
as villager
Valentina Telichkina
as Nina
