
The social ferment in late 19th century Russia which led to the 1917 Russian Revolution is movingly portrayed in this lengthy historical drama, which is very faithful to the 1907 novel The Mother by the celebrated Marxist writer Maxim Gorky (1868-1936). In the story, "the mother" (Inna Tchourikova) has no other recourse than to watch her decent, kindly husband turn into an animalistic, drunken brute as a result of working in the inhuman conditions of a steel mill in the town of Sormovo. When he begins to express his suppressed rage by beating her, she is defended by her teenaged son Pavel (depicted Viktor Rakov as an adult, Sacha Chichonok as a boy). After his father's death, Pavel is forced to go to work in the same factory. However, Pavel and his friends begin investigating Marxism and socialist thought, and work to organize their fellow workers.
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Inna Churikova as The Mother

Viktor Rakov as Pavel Vlassov

Liubomiras Laucevicius as The Father

Dmitriy Pevtsov as

Aleksandr Shishonok as

Ivan Kabardin as

Vladimir Prozorov as

Vladimir Fateyev as

Olga Shukshina as

Antonella Interlenghi as

Andrei Rostotsky as

Vyacheslav Bogachyov as

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy as

Andrey Myagkov as

Mario Adorf as

Sacha Chichonok as Pavel as Boy

Yuriy Prokhorov as

Svyatoslav Ushakov as

Sergey Badichkin as

Igor Bushmelyov as

Vladimir Demidov as

Irina Dolganova as

Ernst Romanov as

Andrey Kharybin as

Andrey Filippov as

Aleksandr Dedyushko as

Sergey Makovetskiy as

Aleksei Buldakov as

Vyacheslav Voynarovsky as

Adrian Filippov as

Sviatoslav Yshakov as

Aleksandr Karin as
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