The Mire

The Mire (1978)

WarDrama

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

Casts

	Nonna Mordyukova as Matryona
	Vadim Spiridonov as Stepan
	Andrey Nikolaev as Mitya
	Valentina Telichkina as Nina
	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 Korablyova as Tanya
	Nina Agapova as Faina
	Vladimir Basov Ml. as Petya
	Vera Burlakova as villager
	Mariya Vinogradova as old woman
	Lidiya Dranovskaya as villager
	Vladimir Zamanskiy as military сommissar
	Svetlana Zhgun as villager
	Antonina Maksimova as villager
	Vladimir Pitsek as truck driver
	Tamara Yarenko as villager
	Tatyana Tashkova as Lida
	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
	Serhiy Pidhornyi as Semyonov
	Larisa Kronberg as сельская жительница
	Vladimir Isayev as

Crew