Russia / Mar 31, 1999 / 0+
A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.
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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...
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| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Мама |
| Original language | Pусский (RU) |
| Spoken languages | Pусский |
| Production countries | Russia |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | Etalon-Film, Profit, Channel One |
| Release date | 31 marzo 1999 |
| Production | Igor Tolstunov, Denis Evstigneev, Konstantin Ernst, Erik Waisberg |
| Writer | Arif Aliev |
| Casting | Tina Tumanishvili |
| Editing | Natalya Kucherenko |
| Cinematography | Grigoriy Rudakov, Sergei Kozlov, Pavel Lebeshev, Eduard Gimpel, Sergei Naugolnykh, Elizbar Karavayev, Evgeny Korzhenkov, Oleg Martynov |
| Assistant directors | Denis Evstigneev |
| Camera operators | Grigoriy Rudakov, Sergei Kozlov, Pavel Lebeshev, Eduard Gimpel, Sergei Naugolnykh, Elizbar Karavayev, Evgeny Korzhenkov, Oleg Martynov |
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| Additional photography | Grigoriy Rudakov, Sergei Kozlov, Pavel Lebeshev, Eduard Gimpel, Sergei Naugolnykh, Elizbar Karavayev, Evgeny Korzhenkov, Oleg Martynov |
| Production design | Vladimir Aronin, Ilya Amursky |
| Art direction | Vladimir Aronin, Ilya Amursky |
| Set decoration | Vladimir Aronin, Ilya Amursky |
| Music | Yury Saulsky, Eduard Artemyev, Ekaterina Popova-Evans |
| Sound | Yury Saulsky, Eduard Artemyev, Ekaterina Popova-Evans |
| Costume design | Pavel Kaplevich, Ekaterina Ivanova |
| Makeup | Ekaterina Ivanova, Pavel Kaplevich |
| Hairstyling | Pavel Kaplevich, Ekaterina Ivanova |
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United States / Apr 04, 1999
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