Characters & Themes
The Mire (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 122 mins · Russian
- Directed by
- Grigoriy Chukhray
- Starring
- Vladimir Gusev, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Valentina Telichkina, Nina Agapova, Nonna Mordyukova, Vadim Spiridonov
During the Great Patriotic War, peasant Matryona Bystrova loses her husband and learns her eldest son has vanished; she hides her youngest in the attic to keep him from conscription until the war ends. Her devotion saves his life but condemns him to emptiness, leaving Matryona tormented by guilt—a private tale that turns into an epic moral conflict.
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