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...
Stars: Nonna Mordyukova, Vadim Spiridonov, Andrey Nikolaev, Valentina Telichkina, Valeriy Nosik, Vladimir Gusev
Crew: Grigoriy Chukhray (Director), Mikhail Ziv (Original Music Composer), Konstantin Stepanov (Production Design), Grigoriy Chukhray (Writer), Viktor Merezhko (Writer), Klavdiya Gamel (Makeup Artist)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Mosfilm
Runtime: 122 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 29, 1978
IMDb: 6.3
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