The Mire
122 mins
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...
Tatyana Ignatova
villager (uncredited)
Yuri Suchkov
photographer (uncredited)
Vera Blagovidova
old woman (uncredited)
Konstantin Stepanov
Production Design
Yuri Sokol
Director of Photography
Mikhail Demurov
Director of Photography
Liya Benevolskaya
Sound
Lidiya Rakhlina
Costume Design
Marina Dobryanskaya
Editor
Klavdiya Gamel
Makeup Artist
Tamara Soldatenkova
Makeup Artist