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...
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Nonna Mordyukova as Matryona
Vadim Spiridonov as Stepan
Andrey Nikolaev as Mitya
Valentina Telichkina as Nina
Valeriy Nosik as Grishka the postman
Vladimir Gusev as Misha
Galina Mikeladze as Katya
Arkady Smirnov as Kornakov
Vera Kuznetsova as Kornakova
Nikolay Dupak as chairman
Ivan Ryzhov as priest
Valentina Ushakova as Mariya
Irina Korablyova as Tanya
Nina Agapova as Faina
Vladimir Basov Ml. as Petya
Vera Burlakova as villager
Mariya Vinogradova as old woman
Lidiya Dranovskaya as villager
Vladimir Zamanskiy as military сommissar
Svetlana Zhgun as villager
Antonina Maksimova as villager
Vladimir Pitsek as truck driver
Tamara Yarenko as villager
Tatyana Tashkova as Lida
Tatyana Ignatova as villager (uncredited)
Daniil Netrebin as district inspector (uncredited)
Yuri Suchkov as photographer (uncredited)
Vera Blagovidova as old woman (uncredited)
Tamara Loginova as Stepan's traveling companion (uncredited)
Tatyana Kuznetsova as guest at Tanya's wedding (uncredited)
Stanislav Korenev as secretary
Serhiy Pidhornyi as Semyonov
Larisa Kronberg as сельская жительница
Vladimir Isayev as
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