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