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Mommy

Mommy (1999)

Directed by Denis Evstigneev
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A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.

1h 40min

Overall average

5.0/10

Plot

After Polina, a mother of six, loses her husband, who went to jail for stealing charcoal and was killed when he tried to escape, she stays behind without any support. To be able to survive, Polina and her family start a folk group. But soon she understands that her children deserve a better fate, and she takes the desperate decision to steal a plane and go abroad... Fifteen years later, Polina is released from prison and finds out that fate has scattered her children all over the country: one is in the army, another is a miner in the Donbass, and the oldest, Lyonchik, who used to be in a mental institution, now pretends to be insane. Polina gathers all of her sons to free their older brother from the psychiatric hospital...

Genres

Drama

Technical details

DetailValue
Original titleМама
Original languagePусский (RU)
Spoken languagesPусский
Production countriesRussia
StatusReleased
Production companiesEtalon-Film, Profit, Channel One
Release date31 marzo 1999
ProductionIgor Tolstunov, Denis Evstigneev, Konstantin Ernst, Erik Waisberg
WriterArif Aliev
CastingTina Tumanishvili
EditingNatalya Kucherenko
CinematographyGrigoriy Rudakov, Sergei Kozlov, Pavel Lebeshev, Eduard Gimpel, Sergei Naugolnykh, Elizbar Karavayev, Evgeny Korzhenkov, Oleg Martynov
Assistant directorsDenis Evstigneev
Camera operatorsGrigoriy Rudakov, Sergei Kozlov, Pavel Lebeshev, Eduard Gimpel, Sergei Naugolnykh, Elizbar Karavayev, Evgeny Korzhenkov, Oleg Martynov
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Release dates

Theatrical release

Russia / Mar 31, 1999 / 0+

United States / Apr 04, 1999

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