Mother

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Cast

Vera Baranovskaya

as Pelageya Nilovna Vlasova, the Mother

Nikolai Batalov

as Pavel Vlasov, the Son

Aleksandr Chistyakov

as Vlasov, the Father

Anna Zemtsova

as Anna

Ivan Koval-Samborskyi

as Vessovchtchnikov

Vsevolod Pudovkin

as Police Officer

Ivan Bobrov

as Young Prisoner

Pavel Poltoratskiy

as Judge

Fyodor Ivanov

as Prison warden

Vladimir Uralskiy

as Student

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