The Alienated Motherland

The Alienated Motherland

1983 · 91 min · ★ 9.0 · Drama, Romance

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.

Directed by Valeriy Rybarev · Written by Aleksandr Lapshin

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