Mommy
A chronicle of a Soviet family folk-band founded by a mother of six.
1999 · 1h 40m
Drama
Directed by
Denis Evstigneev
Overview
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...
Director and cast
- Denis Evstigneev Director
- Nonna Mordyukova as Polina Yuryeva
- Oleg Menshikov as Lyonchik Yuryev
- Vladimir Mashkov as Nikolai Yuryev
- Evgeny Mironov as Pavel Yuryev
- Aleksei Kravchenko as Vasili Yuryev
- Andrei Panin as Yuryev-father
- Maksim Sukhanov as Hospital chief
- Nikolay Chindyaykin as Doctor
- Elena Panova as Polina in his youth
- Mikhail Krylov Cast
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