The Mire
1978, Russian. Directed by Grigoriy Chukhray.
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...
- Runtime
- 2h 2m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 29 October 1978
- Original title
- Трясина
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Grigoriy Chukhray, Viktor Merezhko
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The Mire runs 122 minutes (2h 2m).
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The Mire isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 October 1978. (Checked 6 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Mire?
The Mire (1978) was directed by Grigoriy Chukhray and stars Nonna Mordyukova, Vadim Spiridonov, Andrey Nikolaev.