{"id":72887,"date":"2021-06-13T20:15:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T03:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72887"},"modified":"2021-07-11T23:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T06:36:16","slug":"mother-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72887","title":{"rendered":"Mother (1926)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;You look after your son. It&#8217;s all his doing.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-72888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster-204x300.png 204w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster-697x1024.png 697w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster-87x128.png 87w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster-184x270.png 184w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Poster.png 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter her husband (Aleksandr Chistyakov) is killed in a brawl, a mother (Vera Baranovskaya) in 1905 Russia accidentally condemns her activist son (Nikolay Batalov) to prison, and has a change of heart about the need for a labor strike.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Labor Movement<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<li>Russian Films<\/li>\n<li>Silent Films<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary\u2019s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary writes that this &#8220;classic film of the Russian cinema, directed by V.I. Pudovkin from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mother_(novel)\">Maxim Gorky&#8217;s novel<\/a>,&#8221; is &#8220;rare among the Russian silent films in that it stresses character as much as technique&#8221; and &#8220;it uses montage and character placement for the purpose of expressing individual characters&#8217; emotions.&#8221; He adds that the &#8220;picture has extraordinary visuals, all used for thematic purposes,&#8221; and &#8220;while the acting is good, it is Pudovkin&#8217;s montages that let us know what these characters are thinking.&#8221; In his review, Peary gives away all elements of the plot from beginning to end, so I won&#8217;t say more other than to add that this was the first of Pudovkin&#8217;s three &#8220;revolutionary films,&#8221; with the other two &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=73862\"><em>The End of St. Petersburg<\/em> (1927)<\/a> and <em>Storm Over Asia<\/em> (1928) &#8212; listed in the back of his book; I&#8217;ll be reviewing those shortly. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Highly expressive cinematography and montage<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Still.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Still.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Still-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Still-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Still-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Fist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Fist.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Fist.png 480w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Fist-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Fist-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Mother-Fist-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo, but it&#8217;s worth a look and of course will be of interest to fans of early Soviet cinema. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0017128\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/russianfilmhub.com\/movies\/mother-1926\/\">Russian Film Hub Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trailersfromhell.com\/the-bolshevik-trIlogy-3-films-by-Vsevolod-pudovkin\/\">CineSavant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acinemahistory.com\/2018\/08\/mother-1926-mat.html\">A Cinema History Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You look after your son. It&#8217;s all his doing.&#8221; Synopsis: After her husband (Aleksandr Chistyakov) is killed in a brawl, a mother (Vera Baranovskaya) in 1905 Russia accidentally condemns her activist son (Nikolay Batalov) to prison, and has a change of heart about the need for a labor strike. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Labor Movement Revolutionaries Russian Films Silent Films Response to Peary\u2019s Review: Peary writes that this &#8220;classic film of the Russian cinema, directed by V.I. Pudovkin from&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=72887\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73889,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72887\/revisions\/73889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}