Mother (1926)

About

I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find.

This Soviet drama follows a mother whose son starts to become wrapped up in revolutionary fervor. Her son is a beacon of light in her life, and the more tragedy that she sees in her day-to-day, the more that she starts to become radicalized herself. Modern viewers appreciate that the story follows one woman, rather than an entire movement, and feel the acting is very well done.

I've uploaded two versions with different soundtracks as well as runtimes due to framerate. They both have similar quality, however, so I feel that the superior version likely comes down to a matter of preference.

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Archive

Internet Archive, in Silent films

Licence or status

Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.

Credit

Vsevolod Pudovkin, Nathan Zarkhi, Maxim Gorky

Language

English

Who can watch

The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed