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Vera Baranovskaia.
Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
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Mat
(Mother)
Also known as Mother in the USA
(1926) Soviet Union
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Vsevolod I. Pudovkin
Cast: Vera Baranovskaia [Niovna-Vlasova, the mother], Nikolai P. Batalov [Pavel Vlasov, the son], Aleksander P. Christiakov [Vlasov, the father], Anna Zemtzova [Anna, a revolutionary girl], Ivan Koval-Samborski [Vessovchtchnikov, Pavel’s friend], N. Vidonov [Misha, a worker], Aleksandr Savitsky [Isak Gorbox, the foreman], Vsevolod I. Pudovkin [a police officer], Ivan Bobrov [the young prisoner], Aleksandr Gromov [a revolutionary], Fyodor Ivanov [the prison warden], Pavel Poltoratskii [the judge], Nikolay Trofimov [an escort], Vladimir Uralskii [a student]
Mezhrabpom-Rus’ production. / Scenario by Nathan Zarkhi, from the novel Mat (Mother) by Maxim Gorki. Production design by Sergei Kozlovsky. Assistant directors, Mikhail Doller and Vladimir Strauss. Cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Pudovkin’s first feature film. The novel was previously filmed as Mat (1919). The film was released in the USA by Amkino Corporation on 29 May 1934.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Authors: Maxim Gorki
Listing updated: 28 January 2025.
References: Film viewing : Bardèche-History pp. 174, 266, 276-277; Bohn-Light pp. xxiii, 138, 149, 150, 154, 159; Everson-American p. 158; Fell-History p. 75; Kael-Kiss p. 312; Leish-Cinema p. 41; Limbacher-Feature p. 165; Perry-British p. 52; Shipman-Cinema p. 93; Sinyard-Silent p. 165; Sklar-Movie p. 155; Youngblood-Soviet pp. 86, 88, 104, 109, 111, 115, 131, 143, 151, 173, 213, 226, 266, 270, 318 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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