Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin Year: 1926 Run-time: 1 hr 29 min Source: Youtube The Soviet director Pudovkin isn't as well-regarded as Eisenstein, and his films don't have the same force of impact, but he played a crucial role in the development of cinema. Working in a similar rapid-fire editing style as Eisenstein (an approach which is known as montage , although that term has a different connotation now), Pudovkin strayed a bit from his contemporary's communalist ideal, and focused his stories on strong characterization. That's somewhat relative - Mother doesn't name its main character, the titular "Mother". The crux of the film is how she responds to the death of her husband (and eventually, her son) in the failed 1905 revolution (also the setting of Eisenstein's first two films) by devoting her life to the proletariat's cause. Pudovkin never actually shows her making that decision - it's an internal story told almost entirely throug...
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