Mother (1926)

Original title

Мать

Directed by

Vsevolod Pudovkin

Genre

drama film, silent film, propaganda film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 81 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A mother becomes radicalized during the 1905 Russian Revolution after her husband is killed and her son is sent to prison. The film follows her changing allegiance from the state to the revolutionary cause.

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What happens

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). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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