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...
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Cast
47 people
Nonna Mordyukova
Matryona
Known for
The Diamond Arm
Station for Two
Vadim Spiridonov
Stepan
Also in
Eternal Call
The Hot Snow
Yuri Sokol
Grigoriy Chukhray
Andrey Nikolaev
Mitya
Also in
Smoke of the Fatherland
Stray Dogs
Viktor Merezhko
Konstantin Stepanov
Valentina Telichkina
Nina
Known for
Brigada
The Bolshoi
Mikhail Ziv
Valeriy Nosik
Grishka the postman
Known for
To the Stars by Hard Ways
Klavdiya Gamel
Vladimir Gusev
Misha
Also in
The Alteration Is Correct
Diamonds for Mariya
Grigoriy Chukhray Director · Viktor Merezhko Writer Mikhail Ziv Composer
First release October 29, 1978 · Produced in Russia · Original title Трясина
Production
Mosfilm
Production
Russia
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Original title
Трясина
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · October 29, 1978
Russia · October 29, 1978
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
October 8, 1980
Italy
January 1, 1981
Japan
May 25, 1990
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