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The Mire

Original title: Трясина

1978 2h 2m ★ 5.7/10 TMDB
War Drama

Plot

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
Written by
Viktor Merezhko, Grigoriy Chukhray
Production
Soviet Union
Release date
1978-10-29

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