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Mother (1926)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 1H 29M

Director : Vsevolod Pudovkin

Synopsis

A story about a Russian family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.

Actors

Vera Baranovskaya
Vera Baranovskaya
Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the Mother
Nikolai Batalov
Nikolai Batalov
Pavel Vlasov, the Son
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Vlasov, the Father
Anna Zemtsova
Anna Zemtsova
Anna
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Ivan Koval-Samborskyi
Vessovchtchnikov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Police Officer

Crews

Vsevolod Pudovkin
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Director
Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Novel
Anatoli Golovnya
Anatoli Golovnya
Director of Photography
Nathan Zarkhi
Nathan Zarkhi
Writer
Vladimir Strauss
Vladimir Strauss
Second Unit
David Blok
David Blok
Music

Posters and backgrounds

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