A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Critical Consensus
Vsevolod Pudovkin's 1926 Soviet drama film, Mother, was banned in the United Kingdom in 1930 but later achieved recognition, placing 8th on the prestigious Brussels 12 list in 1958.
The Cast
Vera Baranovskaya
Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the Mother
Nikolai Batalov
Pavel Vlasov, the Son
Aleksandr Chistyakov
Vlasov, the Father
Anna Zemtsova
Anna
Ivan Koval-Samborskiy
Vessovchtchnikov
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Police Officer
Ivan Bobrov
Young Prisoner
Pavel Poltoratskiy
Judge
Fyodor Ivanov
Prison warden
Vladimir Uralskiy
Student
Trivia
Mother is the first installment in Vsevolod Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside The End of St. Petersburg and Storm Over Asia.
The film was banned in the United Kingdom in 1930 after the Masses Stage and Film Guild applied for permission to screen it in London.
The film was voted number 8 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo.
In 1968, Mother underwent a restoration at Mosfilm, adding a soundtrack by Tikhon Khrennikov.
Director Vsevolod Pudovkin aimed to affect spectators through "plastic synthesis through editing" in Mother, rather than by actors' psychological performances.
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