Mother
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Soviet drama follows a mother whose son starts to become wrapped up in revolutionary fervor. Her son is a beacon of light in her life, and the more tragedy that she sees in her day-to-day, the more that she starts to become radicalized herself. Modern viewers appreciate that the story follows one woman, rather than an entire movement, and feel the acting is very well done. I've uploaded two versions with different soundtracks as well as runtimes due to framerate. They both have similar quality, however, so I feel that the superior version likely comes down to a matter of preference.
Why this is free to watch
Mother (1926) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Vsevolod Pudovkin
- Starring
- Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova, Ivan Koval-Samborskiy, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Ivan Bobrov, Pavel Poltoratskiy
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