Mommy (1999)
1h 40m
Running Time
March 31, 1999Release Date
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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Cast & Crew.
Nonna Mordyukova
Polina Yuryeva
Vladimir Mashkov
Nikolai Yuryev
Oleg Menshikov
Lyonchik Yuryev
Aleksei Kravchenko
Vasili Yuryev
Evgeny Mironov
Pavel Yuryev
Andrei Panin
Yuryev-father
Denis Evstigneev
Director
Maksim Sukhanov
Hospital chief
Arif Aliev
Writer
Nikolay Chindyaykin
Doctor
Konstantin Ernst
Producer
Elena Panova
Polina in his youth
Igor Tolstunov
Producer
Eduard Artemyev
Composer
Sergey Kozlov
Cinematographer
Lyudmila Karaush
prodavets
Erik Waisberg
Producer
Vladimir Aronin
Production Design
Natalya Kucherenko
Editor
Pavel Kaplevich
Costume Design
Elizbar Karavayev
Additional Director of Photography
Oleg Martynov
Additional Director of Photography
Ekaterina Popova-Evans
Sound Director
Yury Saulsky
Music
Grigoriy Rudakov
Director of Photography
Evgeny Korzhenkov
Additional Director of Photography
Ekaterina Ivanova
Makeup Artist
Ilya Amursky
Set Designer
Sergei Naugolnykh
Additional Director of Photography
Eduard Gimpel
Additional Director of Photography
Tina Tumanishvili
Casting Director
Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography
Mikhail Krylov
Ervand Arzumanyan
Bolot Beyshenaliev
Viktor Uralsky
Tatyana Samoylova
Anatoliy Belyy
Aleksei Shevchenkov
Rafik Sabirov
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Wiki.
Mother (Russian: Мама, romanized: Mama) is a 1999 Russian feature film based on the capture of an Ovechkin family in 1988.