Mother (1955 film)

Mother (Мать)
Directed by	Mark Donskoy
Produced by	Mark Donskoy Aleksandr Kozyr
Written by	Mark Donskoy Maxim Gorky Nikolai Kovarsky
Starring	Vera Maretskaya
Cinematography	Aleksei Mishurin
Editing by	N. Gorbenko
Release date(s)	1955
Running time	104 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Mother (Russian: Мать, translit. Mat) is a 1955 Soviet drama film directed by Mark Donskoy and based on the eponimous novel by Maxim Gorky. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Cast

• Vera Maretskaya - Pelagea Nilovna Vlassovna, the mother
• Aleksey Batalov - Pavel Vlassov
• Tatyana Piletskaya - Sasha
• Andrei Petrov - Andrei Nakhodka
• Sergei Kurilov - Nikolai Ivanovich
• Liliya Gritsenko - Sophia Ivanovna
• Pavel Usovnichenko - Rybin
• Pavel Volkov - Nikolai Suzov
• Nikifor Kolofidin - Mr. Vlassov
• Ivan Neganov - Agent (as I. Neganov)
• Vladimir Marenkov - Vesoshukov

References

1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Mother". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3693/year/1956.html. Retrieved 2009-02-05. 

External links

• Mother at the Internet Movie Database