Mother
1926 · Movie · Not Rated · 87 min · ★ 7.1
Set during the unrest of 1905 Russia, this silent drama follows a working-class mother torn between loyalty to her family and the growing pull of a labor uprising. As conflict deepens around her, private pain and political struggle become impossible to separate.
Also known as The Mother
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Details
- Original title
- Мать
- Years
- 1926
- Release date
- 1926-10-11
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 87 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (80 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re curious about influential silent-era revolution dramas with strong emotion and social conflict, especially if Battleship Potemkin or Strike worked for you; Not for you if you dislike propaganda-heavy, older silent films.
Pros: powerful emotional core; urgent revolutionary drama; historically significant classic | Cons: overt propaganda elements; bleak subject matter; can feel hard to follow
Themes
- black and white
- silent film
Cast & crew
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
Ivan Bobrov
as Young Prisoner
Pavel Poltoratskiy
as Judge
Fyodor Ivanov
as Prison warden
Vladimir Uralskiy
as Student
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin