The Alienated Motherland

Overview

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.

Cast

Andrei Druzhkin

Mitya

Natalia Brazhnikova

Alesya

Vladimir Polyakov

Impol

Vladimir Gostyukhin

Litovar

Lyubov Chernyaeva

Khristya

Stefaniya Stanyuta

Mondrikha

Antonina Bendova

Mute Yevka

Pavel Kormunin

Uncle Ladimer

Viktor Gogolev

Old Korsak

Stasis Petronaitis

Tsarik