The Alienated Motherland
1983The 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.
Acted in
Andrei Druzhkin
as Mitya
Natalia Brazhnikova
as Alesya
Vladimir Polyakov
as Impol
Vladimir Gostyukhin
as Litovar
Lyubov Chernyaeva
as Khristya
Stefaniya Stanyuta
as Mondrikha
Antonina Bendova
as Mute Yevka
Pavel Kormunin
as Uncle Ladimer
Viktor Gogolev
as Old Korsak
Stasis Petronaitis
as Tsarik
Olga Belyavskaya
as Chesya