The Alienated Motherland (1983)
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
Natalia Brazhnikova
Alesya
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Litovar
Stefaniya Stanyuta
Mondrikha
Antonina Bendova
Mute Yevka
Pavel Kormunin
Uncle Ladimer
Stasis Petronaitis
Tsarik
Olga Belyavskaya
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