The Mire
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...
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