Putin's Mama : Ineke Smits

Not much in Vera Putina's 77-year existence distinguishes her from all those other Russian women who grew up and grew old in the Soviet Union. Until, in 1999, she recognized in Vladimir Putin the son she thought was lost forever.

Did the son that Vera thought was lost, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, really become the President of Russia? Vera has not been asking herself this question any longer for a long time; for her it is beyond doubt that her Vova got that far. And not only Vera is convinced of it, her daughters and the other inhabitants of the Georgian village of Metechi are sure that the ten-year old who disappeared so long ago, must be the same as the man who is now President.

Why that is so, and how it came about, is what we hear from Vera who tells us her life story with much flair. Interrupted by neighbours, assisted by Vova's childhood friends and completed by villagers we hear, bit by bit, how Vera lost her Vova. But most of all what emerges is a touching and sometimes humorous portrait of the still vivacious Vera and her life in Metechi, Georgia.
Her memories and her belief in the dream that she will eventually embrace her child once more are so strong that you would wish every lost child in the world on her.

Written and directed by Ineke Smits
Camera: Giorgi Beridze
Sound: Maarten van Gent
Editor: Menno Boerema
Producer: Pieter van Huystee
Executive producer: Denis Vaslin
Line producer: Hetty Krapels
Commissioning editor NPS: Cees van Ede

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

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• trailer
• poetin's
• mama
• Vladimir
• Vladimirovich
• Putin
• russia
• pieter
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• huystee

[1234oldaa]

Putin does not want to even recognize his own Mom. He is real child of KGB indeed.

[natiaaa]

dedas ar indobs is satana da qveyanas daindobs?

[78910703]

she's not Putin's mother/ it's fake

Putin's real mother is dead long time ago and Putin is very similar to real mother

[1951Sveta]

В какой нищите живут в Грузии.

[2RTPr0paganda]

"Suka" Putin was a KGB creation, a son of a bitch who would disown his own mother all in the name of the glorious KGB propaganda machine.

What is he going to do now, send her a cruise missile, nice way to treat your mother

you son of a bitch.

[returnoftheramble3]

doesn't his mom live with him? Old people get crazy. At least he was decent to this one.

[klas22joey]

@Mandar1n222 If it woman it cant be Putin! Maria PUTINA!

Дурашка

[gosciu555]

@Hereiswhat

WTF are you talking about, you're an idiot.

[MNapetvari]

only DNA can proof it  loool

[Hereiswhat]

Vera Putana gave birth to the devil that is still eating up Georgia from inside out.

[sspiritus999]

Guess, u have seen how Putin was and where. No? May be you hold a candle when Putin was conceiving also? Hehe.

[antikuna]

Putin's mother lives in Georgia. It is true 100%. she had georgian husband.