
91 minutes
9/1/1983
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.
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