Mommy
Мама
Release: 1999-03-31
·Runtime: 100m
·★ 5.5
Drama
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...
Production Countries
Russia
Production Companies
Etalon-Film
Profit
Channel One
Cast
Valeriy Doronin
Maria Skosyreva
Ervand Arzumanyan
Evgeny Mironov
as Pavel Yuryev
Aleksei Kravchenko
as Vasili Yuryev
Nikolay Chindyaykin
as Doctor
Bolot Beyshenaliev
Tatyana Samoylova
Lyudmila Karaush
as prodavets
Nonna Mordyukova
as Polina Yuryeva
Oleg Menshikov
as Lyonchik Yuryev
Anatoliy Belyy
Rafik Sabirov
Vladimir Ivanov
Igor Zolotovitsky
Viktor Uralsky
Maksim Sukhanov
as Hospital chief
Mikhail Krylov
Anna Shtukaturova
Natalya Pozdnyakova
Aleksei Shevchenkov
Zhanna Epple
Gleb Podgorodinsky
Roman Madyanov
Vladimir Mashkov
as Nikolai Yuryev
Andrei Panin
as Yuryev-father
Elena Panova
as Polina in his youth
Pavel Lebeshev
Crew
Denis Evstigneev
Director, Producer
Igor Tolstunov
Producer
Pavel Lebeshev
Director of Photography
Yury Saulsky
Music
Pavel Kaplevich
Costume Design
Sergei Kozlov
Director of Photography
Elizbar Karavayev
Additional Director of Photography
Vladimir Aronin
Production Design
Konstantin Ernst
Producer
Evgeny Korzhenkov
Additional Director of Photography
Oleg Martynov
Additional Director of Photography
Arif Aliev
Writer
Grigoriy Rudakov
Director of Photography
Eduard Artemyev
Original Music Composer