Mother (1955 film)

Mother (Russian: Мать, translit. Mat, also released as 1905) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Mark Donskoy and based on the 1906 eponymous novel by Maxim Gorky. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Mother 1905
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Мать (Mat)
Directed by	Mark Donskoy
Written by	Mark Donskoy Maxim Gorky Nikolai Kovarsky
Produced by	Mark Donskoy Aleksandr Kozyr
Starring	Vera Maretskaya Aleksey Batalov Tatyana Piletskaya
Cinematography	Oleksiy Mishurin
Edited by	N. Gorbenko
Music by	Lev Shvarts
Release date	1955 (1955)
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Plot

In 1905, in Nizhny Novgorod, Vlassov and his son Pavel are workers in a large factory, where they, like many others, are exploited. Vlassov succumbs to alcoholism, leaving Pavel to confront the harsh realities of their lives. Pavel becomes aware of the widespread misery and begins to organize workers, encouraging them to rise up against their oppressors.

Initially submissive and hesitant, Pavel's mother gradually adopts her son's revolutionary ideals. She struggles internally but learns to read to better understand the movement. She becomes actively involved, distributing revolutionary pamphlets during the preparation of a strike.

Despite Pavel's repeated arrests, imprisonments, and eventual sentencing to forced labor and exile in Siberia, his mother continues his work. Her transformation leads her to realize that only revolution can bring justice to the oppressed.

Cast

• Vera Maretskaya as Pelagea Nilovna Vlassovna, the mother
• Aleksey Batalov as Pavel Vlassov
• Tatyana Piletskaya as Sasha
• Andrei Petrov as Andrei Nakhodka
• Sergei Kurilov as Nikolai Ivanovich
• Liliya Gritsenko as Sophia Ivanovna
• Pavel Usovnichenko as Rybin
• Pavel Volkov as Nikolai Suzov
• Nikifor Kolofidin as Mr. Vlassov
• Ivan Neganov (as I. Neganov) as Agent
• Vladimir Marenkov as Vesoshukov

External links

• 1905 (1956) at IMDb