Overview

The film takes place in 1938 in Western Belarus, which was part of Poland. A young peasant woman, Alesya, wants at all costs to win back a house and farm that does not belong to her for the sake of happiness with her beloved Impol, from whom she is expecting a child. Her brother Mitya, a poet, writes freedom-loving poems, for which he is summoned for interrogation and brutally beaten.

Top Cast

A

Andrei Druzhkin

Mitya

Natalia Brazhnikova

Alesya

V

Vladimir Polyakov

Impol

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Litovar

L

Lyubov Chernyaeva

Khristya

Stefaniya Stanyuta

Mondrikha

Antonina Bendova

Mute Yevka

Pavel Kormunin

Uncle Ladimer

V

Viktor Gogolev

Old Korsak

Stasis Petronaitis

Tsarik

Olga Belyavskaya

Chesya