The mother (1926)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The mother |
| Original title | Мать (Mat) |
| Country of production | USSR |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 1926 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| script | Nathan Sarchi |
| production | Meshrabpom-Rus |
| music | Dawid Semjonowitsch Blok (1926) |
| camera | Anatoly Golovna |
| occupation | |
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The mother is a Soviet feature film by Vsevolod Pudovkin from the year 1926 .
action
The film shows a working-class family in Saint Petersburg in the revolutionary year 1905 . There are tensions within the family between the alcoholic father and the son of the Wlassow family, and both are politically active on different sides. Son Pavel hides firearms in the house and prepares a strike in the labor movement, the father is against the revolutionaries.
When clashes broke out on the factory premises between the young workers willing to strike and the older workers who refused to strike, the father found his son to be one of the rioters. In the subsequent persecution of the young workers by the military , the father is shot. With the body laid out in the house, the mother asks Pavel to refrain from his rebellious activities, otherwise he too will be shot.
During the subsequent house search by soldiers, the mother reveals the hiding place of her son's weapons. It had previously been promised that he would be exempt from punishment. Pavel is taken away and put in prison. The trial is a farce, Pawel is sentenced to hard labor . On the steps in front of the court, the mother asks her son for forgiveness.
She is now on the side of the insurgents and smuggled a message from the revolutionaries into prison for her son announcing the liberation of the inmates on the occasion of the march on May Day. In the turmoil surrounding the May demonstrators, Pawel managed to escape from prison. He stands at the head of the march and carries the red flag . When he is shot by soldiers, his mother takes over the flag. While the demonstrators flee from the tsarist cavalry, the mother stands with the flag in her hand, unmoved by what is happening around her. Eventually she is trampled by horses and dies.
backgrounds
The film had its premiere on October 11, 1926. It is based on the novel of the same name by Maxim Gorky and is the first film from Pudovkin's "Revolution Trilogy"; it was followed by The End of Saint Petersburg (1927) and Storm Over Asia (1928).
The buildings for the film are by Sergei Koslowski .
In 1968, Die Mutter was restored in the Mosfilm studios and a soundtrack with music by Tikhon Khrennikov was added.
criticism
“Pudowkin's silent film adaptation of the Gorky novel makes brilliant use of dramatic, lyrical and agitational means of expression that are organized into musical structures and culminate in a furious hymn to the power of revolutionary change. Although the private story is stylized into a political parable in a symbolic abbreviation, the impressive pictorial metaphors remain part of the plot and leave the actors room for psychological deepening of the characters, who are far more than mere socialist model types. "
"The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Gorky is one of the trend-setting works of the Russian silent film era."
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of works by Tikhon Chrennikow ( Memento from September 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 2688
- ↑ Review No. 230/1956, Evangelischer Presseverband München
Web links
- The mother in the Internet Movie Database (English)