La Mère

Original title: Mat

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Nikolay Batalov and Grigory Borisov in La Mère (1926)

A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the wor... Read allA story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.

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First feature film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin.

Alternate versions
In 1968, the film was restored, and a musical score added by Tikhon Khrennikov, emphasizing the film's revolutionary message.

Connections
Featured in Horizon: The Quest for Tannu Tuva (1988)

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7/10

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Vsevolod Pudovkin makes a thunderous debut with this adaptation of the Gorky novel of the same name that takes place immediately before the revolution of 1905. Steeped in the traditions of Soviet montage, Pudovkin's film explores the consequences of a mother's desire to protect her revolutionary son with a style that is both strident and unrelenting, but which avoids Hollywood-style sentmentality while never losing sight of the tale's human perspective.