Mother

Mother (1990)

DramaHistory

The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.

Director: Gleb Panfilov

Casts

	Inna Churikova as The Mother
	Viktor Rakov as Pavel Vlassov
	Liubomiras Laucevičius as The Father
	Dmitriy Pevtsov as
	Aleksandr Shishonok as
	Ivan Kabardin as
	Vladimir Prozorov as
	Vladimir Fateyev as
	Olga Shukshina as
	Antonella Interlenghi as
	Andrei Rostotsky as
	Vyacheslav Bogachyov as
	Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as
	Andrey Myagkov as
	Mario Adorf as
	Sacha Chichonok as Pavel as Boy
	Yuriy Prokhorov as
	Svyatoslav Ushakov as
	Sergey Badichkin as
	Igor Bushmelyov as
	Vladimir Demidov as
	Irina Dolganova as
	Ernst Romanov as
	Andrey Kharybin as
	Andrey Filippov as
	Aleksandr Dedyushko as
	Sergey Makovetskiy as
	Aleksei Buldakov as
	Vyacheslav Voynarovsky as
	Adrian Filippov as
	Sviatoslav Yshakov as
	Aleksandr Karin as
	Sergei Bobrov as Николай Весовщиков

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