Mother (1926 film)

Mother Russian , Mat is a 1926 Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin depicting one womans struggle against Tsarist rule during the Russian Revolution of 1905. The film is based on the 1906 novel The Mother by Maxim Gorky. It is the first film in Pudovkins revolutionary trilogy, alongside The End of St. Petersburg 1927 and Storm Over Asia aka The Heir to Genghis Khan 1928.

In this film, the mother of Pavel Vlasov is drawn into the revolutionary conflict when her husband and son find themselves on opposite sides during a workers strike. After her husband dies during the failed strike, she betrays her sons ideology in order to try, in vain, to save his life. He is arrested, tried in what amounts to a judicial farce, and sentenced to heavy labor in a prison camp. During his incarceration, his mother aligns herself with him and his ideology and joins the revolutionaries. In the climax of the movie, the mother and hundreds of others march to the prison in order to free the prisoners, who are aware of the plan and have planned their escape. Ultimately, the troops of the Tsar suppress the uprising, killing both mother and son in the final scenes.

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