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...
Grigoriy Chukhray
Director, Writer
Viktor Merezhko
Writer
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
Небо80%
Waiting for Anya62%
Jacknife63%
Калашников74%
Лётчик65%
Комиссар64%
Max61%
Cast a Giant Shadow63%
Men in War66%
The One That Got Away68%
Fort Bliss64%
The Kill Team65%
The Scarlet and the Black70%
Ararat61%
The Beast70%
Birdy71%
9 рота66%
Лучшие в аду77%
Красный призрак60%
Behold a Pale Horse60%
