Mother (1955 film)
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Mother 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
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1955 in film
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....
Soviet
Cinema of Russia
The cinema of Russia began in the Russian Empire, widely developed under the Soviet and in the years following the fall of the Soviet system, the Russian film industry would remain internationally recognised...
drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...
directed by Mark Donskoy and based on the eponimous novel by Maxim Gorky
Maxim Gorky
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival
1956 Cannes Film Festival
-Jury:*Maurice Lehmann *Arletty *Louise de Vilmorin *Jacques-Pierre Frogerais *Henri Jeanson *Domenico Meccoli *Otto Preminger *James Quinn *Roger Regent *María Romero...
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Cast
- Vera MaretskayaVera MaretskayaVera Petrovna Maretskaya was a Russian actress.-Early years:Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born on July 31, 1906, in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. Young Maretskaya helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at Moscow Circus...
- Pelagea Nilovna Vlassovna, the mother - Aleksey BatalovAleksey BatalovAleksey Vladimirovich Batalov is a Soviet and Russian actor who has been acclaimed for his portrayal of noble and positive characters. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1976 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1989.-Biography:...
- 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