The Alienated Motherland

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.

• Release date
• September 1, 1983
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Drama, Romance
• Director
• Valeri Rybarev

Cast

A

Andrei Druzhkin Mitya Natalia Brazhnikova Alesya

V

Vladimir Polyakov Impol Vladimir Gostyukhin Litovar

L

Lyubov Chernyaeva Khristya Stefaniya Stanyuta Mondrikha Antonina Bendova Mute Yevka Pavel Kormunin Uncle Ladimer