1926 · drama · silent · historical
Mother
Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin1h 27m1926
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Our read: Mother (1926) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive drama · silent · historical entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / silent, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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