The Mire

The Mire

122 mins | Drama, War | Oct. 29, 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...

The Mire

122 mins | Drama, War | Oct. 29, 1978

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...
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Трясина
Directors Grigoriy Chukhray
Writers Viktor Merezhko, Grigoriy Chukhray

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova

as Matryona

Vadim Spiridonov

as Stepan

Andrey Nikolaev

as Mitya

Valeriy Nosik

as Grishka the postman

Vladimir Gusev

as Misha

Galina Mikeladze

as Katya

Arkady Smirnov

as Kornakov

Vera Kuznetsova

as Kornakova

Nikolay Dupak

as chairman

Ivan Ryzhov

as priest

Valentina Ushakova

as Mariya

Irina Korableva

as Tanya

Nina Agapova

as Faina

Vera Burlakova

as villager

Mariya Vinogradova

as old woman

Lidiya Dranovskaya

as villager

Vladimir Zamanskiy

as military сommissar

Larisa Kronberg

as villager

Svetlana Zhgun

as villager

Antonina Maksimova

as villager

Vladimir Pitsek

as truck driver

Tamara Yarenko

as villager

Tatyana Ignatova

as villager (uncredited)

Daniil Netrebin

as district inspector (uncredited)

Yuri Suchkov

as photographer (uncredited)

Vera Blagovidova

as old woman (uncredited)

Tamara Loginova

as Stepan's traveling companion (uncredited)

Tatyana Kuznetsova

as guest at Tanya's wedding (uncredited)

Stanislav Korenev

as secretary