Name: The Mire
Genre: War, Drama
Released: 1978-10-29
Duration: 2 h 2 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Nonna Mordyukova, Vadim Spiridonov, Andrey Nikolaev, Valentina Telichkina, Valeriy Nosik

The Mire

TMDB 5.7ČSFD 57%19782h 2mReleased

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...

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
Released: Oct 29, 1978