Grigori CHUKHRAY
Григорий ЧУХРАЙ
Grigori TCHOUKHRAI
USSR, 1977, 132mn 
Colour, fiction
The Mire
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Трясина / нетипичная история

 

 Le Marécage

 Tryasina / Netipichnaya istoriya

 
Directed by : Grigori CHUKHRAY (Григорий ЧУХРАЙ)
 
Cast
Nonna MORDYUKOVA (Нонна МОРДЮКОВА)
 
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 19,7 millions of spectators
 
Site : IMDb

Plot synopsis
Matrena Bystrova’s husband and eldest son Stepan die at the front and it is time for her junior son Mitya to go to the front too. When leaving he was badly injured after the bombing and Matrena took him furtively back home. That is how Mitya becomes a defector. They live together avoiding everybody. The war finishes and all of a sudden Stepan comes back home. Matrena was afraid that he would find out the truth about Mitya. She sends Stepan away. But it is difficult to live such a life and finally Mitya goes to militia to confess everything.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
До, во время и после войны [Avant, pendant et après la guerre], Виктор ФИЛИМОНОВ, kinoart.ru, 2023
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2021