The MireMovie
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...
About The Mire
The Mire is a 1978 war, drama movie directed by Grigoriy Chukhray.
The production information lists a runtime of 2h 2m, production credits from Soviet Union, an original language code of RU.
The credited cast includes Nonna Mordyukova, Vadim Spiridonov, Andrey Nikolaev, Valentina Telichkina. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
