The Mire

2h 2m

War Drama

5.2

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...

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova

Matryona

Vadim Spiridonov

Stepan

Andrey Nikolaev

Mitya

Valentina Telichkina

Nina

Valeriy Nosik

Grishka the postman

Vladimir Gusev

Misha

Galina Mikeladze

Katya

Arkady Smirnov

Kornakov

Vera Kuznetsova

Kornakova

Nikolay Dupak

chairman

Ivan Ryzhov

priest

Valentina Ushakova

Mariya

Irina Korablyova

Tanya

Nina Agapova

Faina

Vladimir Basov Ml.

Petya

Vera Burlakova

villager

Mariya Vinogradova

old woman

Lidiya Dranovskaya

villager

Vladimir Zamanskiy

military сommissar

Svetlana Zhgun

villager

Antonina Maksimova

villager

Vladimir Pitsek

truck driver

Tamara Yarenko

villager

Tatyana Tashkova

Lida

Tatyana Ignatova

villager (uncredited)

Daniil Netrebin

district inspector (uncredited)

Yuri Suchkov

photographer (uncredited)

Vera Blagovidova

old woman (uncredited)

Tamara Loginova

Stepan's traveling companion (uncredited)

Tatyana Kuznetsova

guest at Tanya's wedding (uncredited)

Stanislav Korenev

secretary

Serhiy Pidhornyi

Semyonov

Larisa Kronberg

сельская жительница

Vladimir Isayev

Unknown

Crew

Grigoriy Chukhray

Director, Writer

Viktor Merezhko

Writer

Marina Dobryanskaya

Editor

Yuri Sokol

Director of Photography

Mikhail Demurov

Director of Photography

Konstantin Stepanov

Production Design

Lidiya Rakhlina

Costume Design

Klavdiya Gamel

Makeup Artist

Tamara Soldatenkova

Makeup Artist

Liya Benevolskaya

Sound

Mikhail Ziv

Original Music Composer