Mother (1926) 10/11

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Vera Baranovskaya - Niovna-Vlasova (the Mother)

Nikolai Batalov - Pavel Vlasov

Aleksandr Chistyakov - Vlasov

Set during the winter of 1905, Mother is the story of a woman forced to take sides during a worker's strike... conflicted between the loyalty she feels for her husband, who is corrupted by the bosses to support them, and her beloved son, a worker whose cause she grows to sympathize with.

Pudovkin's film is considered a classic of Soviet cinema, standing along side whose of Eisenstein and Dovzhenko. Beautifully shot, he uses montage and metaphor to recreate Maxim Gorky's story of one woman's struggle during the 1905 Revolution.

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• silent
• film
• movie
• soviet
• russia
• russian
• pudovkin

[welthawood]

thank you, oh thank you for posting this. I love "Mother" and this is such a joy to see. This way, I have been able to share this wonderful film with so many friends.

[AlexLyonable]

thank you so much. I have a paper due tomorrow on Pudovkin's theory of editing and it is excellent to be able to review our screening from class to give as examples in it.