Sands Films Cinema Club online.

This is essential watching... all the more so as it is International Women's Day.

Mother (Мать)

The film depicts the radicalization of a mother, during the Russian Revolution of 1905, after her husband and son are killed. The film is based on the 1906 novel The Mother by Maxim Gorky. It is the first film in Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside The End of St. Petersburg (1927) and Storm Over Asia (1928).