Overview

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...

Top Cast

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

Nikolay Dupak

chairman

Ivan Ryzhov

priest

Valentina Ushakova

Mariya