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1926
Mother is a 1926 Soviet drama film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin. It depicts the radicalization of a mother, during the Russian Revolution of 1905, after her husband is killed and her son is imprisoned. Based on the 1906 novel The Mother by Maxim Gorky, it is the first installment in Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside The End of St. Petersburg (1927) and Storm Over Asia (1928).
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Maxim Gorky is the most important author of Russian literature in the first half of the 20th century. This is partly due to his works depicting the harsh lives of lower classes under the Czarist regime, which helped justify the Bolshevik revolution, and partly due to his literary style becoming the basis for Socialist Realism, the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union. The 1906 novel *Mother*, which is Gork…More
