Mother (1926)
With Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborskij, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin
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).
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from the Internet Archive.
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