Mat
(Mother)
AKA Mother in the USA
(1926) Russian
B&W : Feature film
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin

Cast: Vera Baranovskaia, Aleksander P. Christiakov, Nikolai P. Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborski, Anna Zemtzova

Mezhrabpom-Rus’ production. / Scenario by Nathan Zarkhi, from the novel Mat (Mother) by Maxim Gorki. Production design by Sergei Kozlovsky. Cinematography by Anatoli Golovnya. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Pudovkin’s first feature film.

Drama.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Authors: Maxim Gorki

Listing updated: 12 July 2007.

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.

Home Video: DVD.