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Mother, originally titled Мать, is a 1926 Soviet silent drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. The cast includes Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborskij, and Pudovkin himself. Anatoli Golovnya served as the director of photography. The film was produced by Mezhrabpom-Film and distributed by Netflix, with Amazon Prime Video also listed as a provider. It is presented in black-and-white with a 4:3 aspect ratio.
The plot follows a Soviet woman caught between her husband and son, who are on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution. The runtime is listed as 87 minutes by TMDb and 89 minutes by IMDb. The original language is Russian. Tikhon Khrennikov is credited as the composer. The film is currently in the public domain and is available via video on demand. It holds a vote average of 7.1 on TMDb and a rating of 7.4 on IMDb.
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Film · TMDB
7.1A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Cast
- Vera Baranovskaya as Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the Mother
- Nikolai Batalov as Pavel Vlasov, the Son
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as Vlasov, the Father
- Anna Zemtsova as Anna
- Ivan Koval-Samborskiy as Vessovchtchnikov
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as Police Officer
Themes
- black and white
- silent film
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Written by
- Nathan Zarkhi
- Based on
- The Mother by Maxim Gorky
- Starring
- Vera Baranovskaya , Nikolai Batalov
- Cinematography
- Anatoli Golovnya
- Music by
- David Blok (1935) , Tikhon Khrennikov (1970)
- Production company
- Mezhrabpomfilm
- Release date
- 11 October 1926 ( 1926-10-11 )
- Running time
- 89 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Languages
- Silent film , Russian intertitles
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- propaganda film
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Russian
- Director
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Cast member
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Composer
- Tikhon Khrennikov
- Producer
- Mezhrabpom-Film
- Cinematographer
- Anatoli Golovnya
- Duration
- 88
- FilmAffinity ID
- 873028
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- Плакат к фильму «Мать».jpg
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- publication date
- 1926-01-01
- title
- Мать
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- 4:3
- color
- black-and-white
- Commons category
- Mother (1926 film)
- distributed by
- Netflix
- different from
- Matka
- copyright status
- public domain
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Encyclopedic overview
Poster by Grigory Borisov Mother (Russian: Мать, Mat) is a 1926 Soviet drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. It depicts the radicalization of a mother, during the Russian Revolution of 1905, after her husband is killed and her son is imprisoned. Based on the 1906 novel The Mother by Maxim Gorky, it is the first installment in Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside The End of St. Petersburg (1927) and Storm Over Asia (aka The Heir to Genghis Khan) (1928).
Plot summary
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mother” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.