The Alienated Motherland (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.
- Released
- 1983-09-01
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Aleksandr Lapshin, Valeriy Rybarev
- TMDB rating
- 9.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- 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