The Alienated Motherland
MovieTitle | Чужая вотчина |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Sep 1, 1983 |
Genre | Drama, Romance |
Director | Valeri Rybarev |
Production country | Soviet Union |
Production companies | Belarusfilm |
Run time | 91 min. |
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.