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Mother

192689 minSoviet Union
Drama

Synopsis

A mother believes that cooperating with the authorities will protect her son after unrest at a factory brings violence into their home. Instead, his imprisonment forces her to reconsider whom she can trust. As she becomes involved in the workers' movement, a private effort to save her family develops into participation in a collective struggle.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian.
This copy runs
87:01
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Vsevolod Pudovkin · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsVsevolod Pudovkin

Historical context

The film began Pudovkin's revolutionary trilogy, followed by The End of St. Petersburg and Storm Over Asia. Its emphasis on a mother's changing loyalties gives the wider conflict a personal point of entry.

Inspirations

Pudovkin adapts Maxim Gorky's novel about political awakening during the revolutionary movement of 1905.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 12, 2026.

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